Do you know what a seventh minus an eighth is? And how would you feel if you had to quickly spit out the answer in a job interview?
If the thought appals, bad luck. The polls say that, in a matter of days, Britain will be led by a prime minister who likes to set this sort of mental arithmetic test for civil servants in interviews.
Liz Truss, the frontrunner in the Tory leadership race, is moreover “unwilling to appoint those who cannot promptly say, for example, what a seventh minus an eighth is”, The Times reported last weekend.
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