How much of this will be Charlie Whelans opportunuty to reinvent himself?
Already he is political director of Unite. I am not so sure that he is a friend of Mandelsohn but if he smooths the pathways in Unite to ease BASA out of the conflict with face, he will do himself into a job in a future Labour Cabinet. He is a fly fisherman and that means he has patience, guile and talent for a long cast.