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May Joins Trump, Macron in Dumping Davos Amid Problems at Home

May will not attend World Economic Forum, spokesman says
Japan’s Abe, Germany’s Merkel still set to be at gathering

A Call to Cancel Davos Due to Brexit, U.S. Shutdown

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By Simon Kennedy

January 17, 2019 at 5:02 PM UTC

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British Prime Minister Theresa May became the latest leader to cancel a trip to next week’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, forced to stay home by the need to address domestic political drama.

Brexit negotiations will keep May from travelling to Switzerland, her spokesman told reporters on Thursday. With just 10 weeks before the U.K. is supposed to leave the European Union, she is trying to piece together a compromise deal with her political enemies that will get through Parliament.