Truss’s jibe at British workers shows that she fails to understand the problem | Larry Elliott

UK productivity does lag the G7, but the idea that shirking is to blame does not stand up to serious scrutiny

It will doubtless come as a surprise to British workers toiling in distribution warehouses, call centres or the NHS that Liz Truss thinks they could do with showing more graft".

Judging by comments made when she was chief secretary to the Treasury, the frontrunner to be prime minister thinks the UK's economic problems are down to a working culture quite different from that in communist China.