Liam Fox, the international trade secretary, has been strongly criticised by businesspeople and politicians for suggesting British executives would rather play golf than export their goods and services, in an extraordinary attack on the country’s “lazy” business culture. The MP for North Somerset’s comments were roundly condemned, with one entrepreneur calling them “disgusting”, while a fellow Tory MP urged Fox to “shut up”. 'Fat and lazy' Britain is ill-prepared to secure future outside EU, says Fox Read more“This country is not the free-trading nation that it once was. We have become too lazy and too fat on our successes in previous generations. “He’s a representative of this country and he turns around and slags us off, calls us fat and lazy.

Source: The Guardian September 10, 2016 09:48 UTC