#labour

So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes. ↗

— Francis Maude

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But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

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The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom. ↗

— Ed Miliband

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The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough? ↗

— William Morris

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I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central. ↗

— Lucy Powell

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In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly. ↗

— Lucy Powell

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The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds. ↗

— Lucy Powell

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By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them. ↗

— David Ricardo

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But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed. ↗

— David Ricardo

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The proportions, too, in which the capital that is to support labour, and the capital that is invested in tools, machinery and buildings, may be variously combined. ↗

— David Ricardo

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