Guardian - Voters want MPs who know their own minds. New Labour doesn't: Someone, somewhere - perhaps in Downing Street, the Labour whips office, around Gordon Brown or in the parliamentary party - will have done the sums. The tipping point for Tony Blair and possibly for the New Labour project will be decided by the size of any majority in the forthcoming general election. Much under 60 and Tony Blair's nightmare becomes a reality: for his majority will then be made up of the leftwing Campaign Group MPs, aggrieved former ministers and the awkward squad. The prime minister's promised "unremittingly New Labour" programme will suffer the attrition of a hundred compromises, retreats and defeats. In truth, this is what a powerful cross-section of the Labour movement is secretly hoping for. For it may be the last chance to save the Labour party for social democracy and from remorseless internal collapse. But here is the rub, and it goes to the core of the malaise that has afflicted Labour for the best part of 10 years. It was made very plain to Roy Hattersley by two Blairite MPs who recently informed him: "We have worked very hard to get the right people." What they meant was that, by fair means or foul, they have managed to get as many parliamentary candidates of their persuasion in place as possible. Due process and fair play take second place when the task of the party apparatus is to deliver a parliamentary party in the image of its leader and so save him the embarrassment of having to argue and negotiate.