Sir Keir Starmer has criticised Rishi Sunak's absence at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and said his own attendance alongside shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves is a "statement of intent" of the UK's increased presence on the global stage under a Labour government.The Labour leader also blamed the UK's economic woes on the lack of a strategic plan for growth and a "sense of instability and drift" caused by the recent turmoil in the Tory party.

Sir Keir Starmer has criticised Rishi Sunak's absence at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and said his own attendance alongside shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves is a "statement of intent" of the UK's increased presence on the global stage under a Labour government.The Labour leader also blamed the UK's economic woes on the lack of a strategic plan for growth and a "sense of instability and drift" caused by the recent turmoil in the Tory party.