May slaps down Boris Johnson over NHS funding demands

PM and ‘large number of ministers’ make point that cabinet discussions should take place in private, spokesman says

Theresa May and a string of leading ministers rebuked Boris Johnson during Tuesday’s cabinet after his plan to demand more funding for the NHS was widely briefed to the media before the meeting.

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