Corbyn’s communist

UNTIL a few months ago Andrew Murray, Unite leader Len McCluskey’s chief of staff, was a member of the Communist Party.

It’s stark confirmation of how violently Labour has lurched Left that Mr Murray is now heading Jeremy Corbyn’s election campaign. Indeed the main planks of his draft manifesto – abolition of strike laws, re-nationalisation of key industries, a union-dominated Ministry of Labour, higher business taxes – would effectively hand control of industrial policy to Mr McCluskey and his cabal of self-serving union barons.

A similar capitulation happened in the 1970s and we all know how it ended. Endless strikes, the three-day week, blackouts, rubbish piled in the streets, the dead unburied, economic collapse, inflation above 20 per cent and Britain rightly dubbed ‘the sick man of Europe’.