UK Business “Too Lazy and Fat”, Says Trade Secretary Liam Fox

During his speech to activists on Thursday evening he said there needed to be a change in British business culture and said people had got to stop thinking about exporting as an opportunity and start thinking about it as a duty. “This country is not the free-trading nation it once was. We have become too lazy, and too fat on our successes in previous generations,” he said. He added: “Companies who could be contributing to our national prosperity – but choose not to because it might be too difficult or too time-consuming or because they can’t play golf on a Friday afternoon – we’ve got to be saying to them if you want to share in the prosperity of our country you have a duty to contribute to the prosperity of our country.”