Liz Truss says British workers ‘need more graft’: Tory frontrunner refuses to back down after leaked recording reveals her criticising the UK’s ‘working culture’ and saying the ‘mindset’ should be more like China
- A recording has emerged of Liz Truss criticising the working culture in Britain
- Tory leader front runner compared the ‘mindset’ unfavourably with that in China
- Labour has seized on the remarks to attack Ms Truss amid cost-of-living crisis
Liz Truss has batted away a backlash after a recording emerged of her complaining that British workers lack ‘graft’.
The Tory leadership front runner swiped at the ‘working culture’ in parts of the UK outside London, comparing it unfavourably with China.
In the remarks – made when Ms Truss was a Treasury minister between 2017 and 2019 – she warned that for…
