Vis Unita Fortior?

Not they themselves seem to have noticed.

I - yes, even I - am astonished that Tristram Hunt has ever been a Labour Party member, never mind that he still is one. He neither knows nor cares the first thing about the Labour Movement beyond the handful of upper-crust Fabians who went to public school or were otherwise associated with the Marxists, New Liberals, English Idealists and the like who genuinely interest him and with whom he strongly identifies. Mandy wants him in so that he can be given something in a Government headed by the current leader of people like that, a Government in which Mandy has already promised to serve. That leader is not Gordon Brown.

But things may not go quite according to plan. Stoke Central Constituency Labour Party is a vipers' nest of factionalism, and this could be just the excuse that certain suspendees and others are looking for to put up a candidate of their own.