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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 29 January 1991.

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Photo of Mr Anthony Favell Mr Anthony Favell , Stockport 12:00, 29 January 1991

Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that one of the reasons why our unemployment levels are so favourable, compared with other EEC countries, is that our labour relations are much more flexible than most of theirs, including Germany? Is not the quickest way of achieving that awful word "convergence" to adopt the social charter?