Johnson commits to telling Amazon boss his firm must pay fair share of taxes

Boris Johnson has committed to telling Amazon boss Jeff Bezos the online giant must pay its fair share of taxes in the UK and address working standards for employees. Touchdown: Boris Johnson arrives at New York's JFK airport last night ahead of today's meetings Taxing conversation: Boris Johnson and Jeff Bezos will discuss finance and workers' rights in New York later today As he urges world leaders to do more to combat the climate crisis, the Prime Minister will also hold talks with Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro, a climate change sceptic, during the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Monday. New Foreign Secretary Liz Truss was also on the plane to New York with the Prime Minister Ahead of the separate round-table talks with world leaders, No 10 pointed to OECD figures last week showing that only 79.6 billion dollars in climate finance was mobilised in 2019. The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “We established this travel working group at the G7 and you can expect them to discuss the work done by that group and the shared need to open up UK-US travel as soon as possible.” Fallout from the new Aukus military pact between the UK, US and Australia, will also be under discussion.