Jon Trickett MP, Labour’s Shadow Business secretary, commenting on Liam Fox’s remarks regarding British business, said:

“British firms are not "fat and lazy” as Liam Fox suggests; they are suffering from a government that has no idea how to build an industrial strategy.

“Theresa May has substituted a proper meaningful industrial strategy for rhetoric and watchwords. It is simply not good enough. Britain needs a strategic economic plan, not a government that will stand by and simply blame business for their own failings.”