All work and no play makes Labour look dull.

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HIS may belie the rumoured rift between the political and industrial wings of the Labour movement, or may prove that to New Labour the trade unions are a troublesome anachronism with an "ace caff" attached. Last Thursday night Labour hired Congress House, the TUC's headquarters, for the party's discreet celebration of its second general election victory.

But the man the party was all about was not there. True to his slogan, "the work goes on", Tony Blair found no time for jollifications. The prime minister flew straight from another soul-deadening round o