Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you

slide by on track to your

there,

to care in the world as you simply lean back.

And before you know it, you're there.

This is how travels should feel,

and on our trains it does.

Avanti West Coast feel good travel. Labour leaders and trade unions. It's long been a fraught relationship, but over the past week

it seems to have hit a particularly low ebb for Kiestarma.

Unites Len McCluskey has announced a 10% cut in funding for the Labour Party,

United Labour's biggest donors.

Len McCluskey, or Red Len, as he's known in the tabloids,

is the old school trade unionist,

manning the picket line at the center of this drama.

He cannot win an election without us.

How much does the Modern Labour Party rely on the unions

and how much to the relationships at the top

shape the left wing in British politics.

You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times.

I'm Manvin Rana. Today, labor, unite or divide. Len has two chessboards that decorate his office.

Gabriel Pogrand is the Sunday Times Whitehall Correspondent.

He's a tactician and a consummate political animal.

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