Labour quietly released its finalised employment reforms on May 24th – although some parts of it, for instance a single status of worker and sectoral…

It makes labour a more secure commodity, removes legal prohibitions on trade union activity, and provides unions with more rights.

Trade union pragmatism means that while the New Deal is far from perfect, the affiliated unions will now back it to the hilt, as they recognise how, if combined with effective and strategic action on their part, it has the potential to be transformative for their movement and reverse decades of decline. Within the comforting confines of labourism, all else is secondary.