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Labour: a moral crusade?

Updated on 14 April 2009

By Victoria Macdonald

The Conservative leader observes that the government has been in power so long it has "forgotten who it is serving".

With David Cameron again calling for a change of culture at Number 10, the discomfort in Labour's rank and file can have only increased.

Despairing Labour backbenchers, surveying the catastrophic public reaction to the email smear scandal, have been driven to quote the former Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson: "The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing."

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