When she was short-listed last month Guido said he would “eat his hat if Lucy Powell does not win the Labour selection process for Manchester Central.” Well what do you know?

https://twitter.com/#!/LucyMPowell/status/191992969258221569

What was it that first attracted the members to the leader’s deputy Chief of Staff and a member of the Labour Party’s new Executive Board? Presumably this is one by-election that Harman and Watson will find acceptable? A brazen stitch up…