Liam Fox, the international trade secretary, has launched an attack on Britain for “growing fat and lazy”, making it ill-prepared for the business deals that need to be done after leaving the EU. Fox, a former GP and staunch Eurosceptic, suggested business executives would rather be playing golf on a Friday afternoon than negotiating export deals. He made the remarks, first reported by the Times, at a Conservative Way Forward event for business leaders in parliament. However, Theresa May gave him the post of international trade secretary in her new government as one of several high-profile Eurosceptics handed responsibility for dealing with the fallout of the vote to leave the EU. “And that’s a problem because it’s great the year we get the foreign investment and we get jobs created, but every year after that all their income flows go to their parent companies.”

Source: The Guardian September 09, 2016 22:56 UTC