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Torcuil Crichton

Liz Truss comments on UK workers not putting in enough 'graft' branded 'a total disgrace'

Liz Truss’s comments that British workers need “more graft” have been branded a “total disgrace” by Labour.

Yvette Cooper, the Shadow Home Secretary, said comments from Tory leadership frontrunner showed how out of touch Liz Truss was.

The Tory Foreign Secretary was plunged into controversy after the Guardian unearthed a leaked recording in which she hinted that workers outside London lacked the “mindset and attitude” of those in the capital.

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