'If Labour is no longer the party of collective action through government (and public sector employment), what is it?' asks the Guardian's David Walker.
Deep in debt and haemorrhaging members, without its union subscriptions Labour would struggle to survive as a political party, let alone a government. In the week when ministers urged sub-inflation pay restraint on trade union members while pledging to block any attempts to regulate exectutive pay, wouldn't a more apposite question be this: if New Labour is no longer the party of the public sector, then why should the public sector continue to prop it up?
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