Other countries were slow to follow suit not because they were stupid, sluggish or repressed, but because they did not have that particular combination of expensive Labour and inexpensive energy.

而其他国家没有跟随英国的脚步并非因为他们愚蠢，行动迟缓又遭到压制，而是因为他们没有同时拥有廉价劳动力和能源。

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And Labour MP Kate Hoey, one of the party's leading Eurosceptics, said Mr Cameron had been "absolutely right" to offer the public their say over the issue and she expected Labour to follow suit in due course.

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The single currency would change Europe's labour markets because it would make it harder for governments to adjust macroeconomic policies to suit circumstances in their own economies.

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