PM ‘slaps down’ Boris Johnson over £5bn NHS funding demand

Cabinet turns on Foreign Secretary over intervention on health spending

Boris Johnson and Theresa May at cabinet
(Image credit: Stefan Rousseau/AFP/Getty Images)

Theresa May “slapped down” Boris Johnson today over his public demands for an extra £100m a week for the NHS - a move apparently designed to make the Foreign Secretary seem prime ministerial.

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