Sentence examples for pragmatic labour from inspiring English sources

The shadow chancellor, a more pragmatic Labour politician, would rather stand up and jeer.

Then there's a tension – a yawning divide, say some – between pragmatic Labour councils and a radical, anti-austerity leadership that has failed to connect with the public.

Carwyn Jones, the Welsh first minister, is being encouraged to develop a UK profile so that he can show English voters what a pragmatic Labour government can achieve.

The leftists are the heirs of Ben-Gurion's pragmatic Labour Zionists, who were willing to accept less than the whole British mandate of Palestine, in the hope of gaining international acceptance, if not Arab agreement.

The first few times, the repetitious litany of watering, pruning, composting, etc, seems unnecessary, but as the decades pass and the property gets eaten away by misuse and decay, the gardener's patient, pragmatic labours become unexpectedly moving.

It would not be weakness, but pragmatic strength if Labour were to step aside now.

Politically, he was always solidly Labour, pragmatic and loyal to his party leaders and to his own deep principles.

There is both a principled and pragmatic case for Labour making clear its opposition to the forthcoming welfare uprating bill.

And now, it is enjoying a new lease of life in the age of the arch-moderniser himself, Tony Blair.In fact, the Corporation has done a deal: very pragmatic, very New Labour.

His sudden support for Jim Callaghan to continue as leader - in fact, he resigned in 1980 - was born not out of a long admiration but a pragmatic approach to Labour's immediate problems.

Polling data show that women feel "less confident and more worried" about the prospect of independence which, he adds, "fits the stereotype that women are more risk-averse than men".That may be just another way of saying that women voters are often more pragmatic, says Margaret Curran, Labour MP for Glasgow East and shadow secretary of state for Scotland.