Today’s early edition Evening Standard (no, I didn’t buy it, and no, there’s currently no link to the story on the Standard’s website) is carrying reports that London Labour backbencher John Austin is considering launching a leadership bid. Not through any belief that he’s got a chance, but purely to force a proper challenge from some real big hitters.

Potentially interesting. Though let’s not forget that John Redwood’s opportunistic leadership bid against John Major in 1995 got precisely nowhere…