Liam Fox, the British international trade secretary, has described many of the country’s exporters as “fat and lazy”, more interested in “playing golf on a Friday afternoon” than striking deals.
It is not just this attack on the companies he is meant to be championing which has upset business leaders — it is also appears that he is ill-informed: real movers and shakers are swapping their golf clubs for two wheels.
The number of golf players in the US has dropped by 20 per cent in the past decade while in England numbers have fallen 29 per cent since 2008. But if the green no longer cuts it, where should business people swap business cards?
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