Liz Truss, candidate for the leadership of the Conservative Party and -therefore- for the post of Prime Minister to succeed Boris Johnson, said that the British workers should be ‘smarter’ to overcome the “skills” and “competencies” of foreign rivals.
In a 2019 audio accessed by The Guardian, Liz Truss, who was Chief Secretary to the Treasury at the time, also highlighted the differences between london workers and those of the rest of the UK. Saluting the productivity of London, the candidate for the leadership of the Tories he claimed that the disparity was due to a certain “mindset or attitude” that hardly anyone wanted to change.
Liz Truss had already been involved in a similar controversy. In the book “Britannia Unchained”, which she co-authored, there is a passage that characterizes British workers as the “the laziest in the world”. The candidate defended herself by saying that part of the book that made this reference was written by Dominic Raab.
“Each author wrote a different chapter”, assured Liz Truss during a debate in which she was asked about this passage, shooting after Dominic Raab is supporting the main rival for the leadership of the Tories, Rishi Sunak. In response, the co-author of the book said that everyone who wrote it had taken “collective responsibility” for the book’s content and challenged Liz Truss to explain the “reason she changed her point of view”.
On the most recent controversy, the Labor Party has already reacted. Jonathan Ashworth, a Labor MP, told The Guardian it was “offensive nonsense”. “Liz Truss should be helping workers deal with the difficulties of rising costs of living,” he said, adding that “it was extremely offensive” for the candidate to address British workers in such a way.
“I was hoping she was past the days of the ‘Britannia Unchained’ fiasco, but it looks like this will be her blueprint for her future government,” shot Jonathan Ashwort.
Source: Observadora
