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Tell us: how do you feel about Liz Truss saying British workers need “more graft”?

Conservative leadership hopeful Liz Truss speaks at the only Scottish Conservative leadership hustings before an audience of Party members and media at Perth Concert Hallon on 16 August, 2022 in Perth, Scotland.
Conservative leadership hopeful Liz Truss speaks at the only Scottish Conservative leadership hustings before an audience of Party members and media at Perth Concert Hallon on 16 August, 2022 in Perth, Scotland. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Liz Truss, the Tory leadership frontrunner, said British workers needed “more graft” and suggested they lacked the “skill and application” of workers from other countries, a leaked audio recording revealed.

Truss, who at the time of her remarks was the No 2 at the Treasury, was also attempting to explain the difference between London and other regions in the UK, and suggested the disparity was “partly a mindset or attitude thing”.

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