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17-08-2022, 07:59 AM
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LONDON (AFP) - UK Conservative Liz Truss, the favourite to become prime minister next month, suggested Britons lacked "skill and application" and needed to work harder, in a leaked audio recording released on Tuesday (Aug 16).
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Truss said workers' "mindset and attitude" were partly to blame for the UK's relatively poor productivity.
"It's working culture basically," she said in the recording, obtained by the Guardian newspaper, adding British workers needed "more graft".
"If you go to China it's quite different, I can assure you.
"There's a fundamental issue of British working culture... I don't think people are that keen to change."
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europ...aked-audio
LONDON (AFP) - UK Conservative Liz Truss, the favourite to become prime minister next month, suggested Britons lacked "skill and application" and needed to work harder, in a leaked audio recording released on Tuesday (Aug 16).
.......
Truss said workers' "mindset and attitude" were partly to blame for the UK's relatively poor productivity.
"It's working culture basically," she said in the recording, obtained by the Guardian newspaper, adding British workers needed "more graft".
"If you go to China it's quite different, I can assure you.
"There's a fundamental issue of British working culture... I don't think people are that keen to change."
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europ...aked-audio
