‘How dare you talk down the country that you’ve damaged’

The UK’s worldwide trade secretary Liam Fox has criticised Britain for “growing fat and lazy”, rendering it ill-prepared for business deals that must be carried out after leaving the EU.

Liam Fox has come under fire after launching an outspoken attack on British business culture, claiming that executives prefer to play golf rather than fulfilling their “duty” as exporters.

Freaky as it may seem, representing the self-declared party of business and being the government official tasked with helping to promote British business interests overseas, Liam Fox has slammed British business leaders as being “fat” and “lazy” and preferring downtime to making a success of their operations.

He said this was amid successes in previous generations and warned that the country was “not the free-trading nation that it once was”.

The Cabinet minister suggested the United Kingdom had lost its way as a trading nation and had grown “too fat” on the successes of previous generations.

“Companies who could be contributing to our national prosperity, but choose not to, because it might be too hard, or too time consuming, that might not be able to play golf on a Friday afternoon”.

A Downing Street spokesman said Mr Fox had been expressing his own views at the event, and not the views of the government.

Mr Fox also took aim at the Foreign Office for apparently focusing its effort on diplomacy rather than business. I just think: “how dare he talk down the country that he damaged, how dare he”.

Dr Fox was under pressure to apologise for the remarks, which also included the allegation that bosses are more interested in playing golf than winning in tough export markets.

“He’s a awful, bad voice for British business”. He comments, that Fox is supposed to be a representative of the working class.

Labor Shadow Minister Jonathan Ashworth called Fox’s comments offensive and crass and called for him to apologize.

In April previous year Fox tweeted this.

At a drinks reception for Right-wing Tory activists in the Commons on Thursday, he was overheard saying those who did not take advantage of new export opportunities could face sanction. The remarks have prompted outrage from many business leaders.

“If new trade deals are formed with small business at their heart, we should at last see significant export-driven growth for the United Kingdom economy”.

“This country is not the free-trading nation that it once was”.