Reeves Laughs Off Elon Musk’s Trolling of World Leaders

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves joked about Elon Musk’s online “trolling” of world leaders, in a break from the UK government’s careful efforts to avoid responding to frequent criticism from the close Trump ally.

Britain’s finance minister was discussing the use of technology “to cut out some of the costs in the back-office functions of government,” during an on-stage interview with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. By cutting costs, she said, the government would be able to do less on tax, provide better public services and invest more in capital project.