The former health secretary Sajid Javid has distanced himself from comments made by Liz Truss in a leaked recording, in which she said British workers needed “more graft” and implied they lacked the skills of foreign workers.
When asked about the remarks on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Javid said he did not know the context in which the comments had been made, but he thought British workers were the most hardworking in the world.
