ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the debate about Labour Party-Trade Union links that preoccupied the labour movement and the media during 1992–93. Both the organisational and electoral implications of the main proposals for change are considered. It is concluded that arguments in favour of a formal ‘divorce’ between the party and the unions cannot yet be justified, whereas reforms of the type adopted by the party conference in 1993 seem more promising for both the party and the unions, although they are by no means guaranteed success.
