Attack on unions and public services: Blair brings the war home
Fight back against Foundation hospitals PFI Education cuts Fresh from his military victory, Tony Blair is out to target what Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher, in so many ways his role model, called 'the enemy within' - militant trade unionism. "We will not give in, in any shape or form, to resurgent industrial militancy", said Blair at a press conference on 28 April. He plans to push through his market-oriented plan for public services. 'Foundation hospitals' will create, effectively, a two-tier National Health Service, and more 'private finance initiative' schemes will subordinate public...