Sentence examples for argument of labour from inspiring English sources

"When are you going to run a surplus in this country, if after seven or eight years of economic growth you are not running a surplus?" He also rejected the argument of Labour MP Wes Streeting that the target is only met because of "accounting wheezes and window dressing".

This is in part because the arguments in favour of labour migration are economic, and so easy to measure, while the arguments against are cultural and very hard to quantify.

The countries are divided into four quartiles, and ranked in order of the employment rate of the grey-haired contingent.If the lump-of-labour argument were correct, you would expect to see that a high employment rate among the wrinklies would be offset by a low employment rate among the youngsters, and vice versa.

I don't need an impassioned argument about the purity of Labour's policies – I'll stay in the Labour party and try to influence from within.

The theoretical case for free trade is based on Adam Smith's argument that the division of labour among countries leads to specialization, greater efficiency, and higher aggregate production.

But he rejects the argument that the vagueness of Labour's framework inhibits his party receiving a wider hearing, a point argued by some in the shadow cabinet and in pamphlets such as "In the Black".

If you can stand further argument over the custody of Labour's soul, Antony Barnett's film looks at how the party got itself into its present mess, and ponders how – or if – it can become a functional opposition once more.

As a result I played a notable part in the process that resulted in 10 years of Labour party argument being more concerned with what is old or new than with what is good or bad.

Watson's finding of a difference in the number of hours worked between male and female managers working full-time reinforces the argument that the domestic division of labour contributes to wage differentials [ 24].

But supporters of Tony Blair are likely to echo the argument of the Tories – that Labour should be performing more strongly in a byelection when the government is facing such a grave economic crisis.

"If we turn these post-Chilcot debates just into attempts to pursue and hound Tony Blair, the whole thing just turns into a party political argument with Labour members of parliament trying to defend the position of their government," he said.