McDonnell was an invited speaker and his accommodation and expenses will have been paid by the event’s sponsor, Credit Suisse.
I suspect the Mail are engaging in deflection tactics. They should be worrying why business leaders had invited McDonnell. Why they are taking him seriously, and who he met. But instead they report a fake story that is poorly researched.
But it keeps Chancellor Phillip Hammond’s speech at Davos out of the headlines. The speech that Theresa May had to denounce before he had got to the end of page 1.
// Theresa May has bowed to pressure from Eurosceptic MPs and disowned remarks by the chancellor, Philip Hammond, as she struggled to quell a fresh Tory revolt over Brexit that could threaten her leadership.
Philip Hammond said the government would seek only ‘modest’ changes in its relationship with the EU.
After pro-Brexit MPs in Westminster reacted furiously, and some ministers privately made their disquiet known to Downing Street, No 10 moved to distance the prime minister from her chancellor’s remarks. //