Britons need better work ethic, says senior Tory MP

Britons need better work ethic, says senior Tory MP  BBC

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00:00Do you think that that sort of belief in hard work is something that's missing in Britain today?

00:05I do a bit. There are nine million working age adults who are not working and as we compete

00:11globally with countries like South Korea, China, India, we need a work ethic, we need everybody

00:19to be making a contribution. We are in, as George Osborne said years ago, we are in a global race

00:24and that means we've got to be competitive and it means we've got to work hard and I think as

00:28a country we need to lift our game, we need to up our game.