Labour commits to pre-election ‘democratic alliance’ with FG and Greens

LABOUR leader Pat Rabbitte has committed his party to building an early alliance with Fine Gael and the Green Party to offer an alternative government in the 2007 general election.

Expanding yesterday on the call for a "democratic alliance" which he made during his keynote address to the Labour national conference on Saturday night, Mr Rabbitte said people were crying out for an alternative government.

He said he had decided forming an alliance was the only means of doing that, notwithstanding a diversity of views within his own party on the subject.