Asda chair Lord Rose: ‘We can’t become a state where people just live on handouts’

Lord Stuart Rose

Asda chair Lord Rose has warned that Britain’s “worklessness crisis” will take decades to address.

“I’m not being rude,” he said. “And people will say I’m some toff who’s got a silver spoon in his mouth. Well, I wasn’t born with a silver spoon. I was born and lived in a caravan. I’m 75 years old and I’m still working.”

 

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