Peter Mandelson: The next MP for South Shields?

ft.com/westminster has an intriguing theory about who might fight South Shields for Labour at the next election should David Miliband become the European Union’s foreign policy chief:

Some killjoys will have spotted at least a dozen fatal flaws in this fantastic theory. But it is never wise to think about these scenarios too carefully. Why spoil the fun? Some stories are just too good to be fiction.