PHILIP Congdon (Letters, January 15) highlights some of the abysmal failures of a political party which rode to power on the backs of the real Labour voters.

He is right to refrain from mentioning their more sordid and dubious machinations.

A definition of the real Labour Party is: "A political party at home and abroad which champions the interests of the working classes."

New Labour's should be: "A hypocritical political party which champions its own interests."

ARNOLD SEDGWICK, Lyndhurst Avenue, Blackburn.

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