The BBC reports that Labour MPs in the Campaign group, chaired by John McDonnell, are threatening to stand under their own manifesto at the next election if Prime Minister Gordon Brown fails to adopt their policies: Among the policies Mr McDonnell wants to see is the restoration of trade union rights, more council houses, an end to public service privatisation, scrapping the Heathrow third runway, freezing and then abolishing student fees, scrapping Trident and ID cards and electoral reform. He said: “If Labour is to stand any chance of surviving at the next election real change has to be visibly underway and progress demonstrated at the latest by the autumn. If we go beyond November without real change, what hope is left of Labour not only remaining in government but surviving as an effective political force at all?”