Even weakened, the unions could make life hard for a Tory government, whose market-based reforms for schools will provoke no less union ire than its as-yet-vague spending plans.

• 即使实力有所削弱，但工会仍将会对托利党政府发难，后者基于市场的教育改革和现在仍含糊不清的削减计划一样，将引起工会极大不满。