Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves fill a vacuum in Davos charm offensive
by Larry Elliott and John Collingridge in Davos from on (#6801N)
Labour's top team take advantage of Rishi Sunak's absence from the World Economic Forum
It was blue versus red in Davos. Within minutes of the business secretary, Grant Shapps, regaling a CBI lunch at the swanky Belvedere hotel about his plans to scale up Britain" on Thursday, Keir Starmer took his seat in the main hall in the conference centre a couple of hundred of yards down the road.
The Labour leader proved less of a draw than Volodymyr Zelenskiy the day before, but that wasn't the point. The man who aims to be the UK's next prime minister had the stage he needed to make his case.
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