Last Stand?

Applications to become the Labour candidate at Batley and Spen have to be in by Friday at noon.

The selection itself will be within a week of that.

If it's David Miliband, then next year's Labour Leadership Election will be on.

If it's not, then Miliband will be finished, once and for all, in British politics.

As he would be if, having been selected, he were then defeated at the polls by George Galloway.