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Where’s Ed Balls?
When the going got tough, Gordon Brown would pull his favourite Macavity trick and disappear. It seems his prodigy Ed Balls has learnt exactly the same trick. There has been a lot of grumbling over the...
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Darling of the Lobby
The two Eds will have been following Alistair Darling’s Lobby lunch very closely this afternoon. Darling laid down the gauntlet to Balls, showing a fair amount of leg about a possible return: “At the...
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Low Spinning Balls
Where there are unemployment figures, there is a chance to spin. Especially for Watson-trained Balls Political Adviser / bruiser Alex Belardinelli. There he was, gleefully tweeting killer stats to...
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Balls Abandons Universality to Save His Job
Ed Balls has finally blinked, tearing up the party’s previously unbreakable commitment to universal benefits, alienating the Labour left and cynically conceding to the centre ground. He announced today...
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Osborne and Balls on Bilderberg Guest List
Selected guest list for this week Bilderberg meeting in Watford: Chairman: Henri de Castries, Chairman and CEO, AXA Group George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer Ed Balls, Shadow Chancellor of the...
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Quote of the Day
Andrew Pierce on Ed Balls… “Porky Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls sweet-talked guests at a fund-raising dinner by saying if he wasn’t a politician, he would be a chef. That’s not surprising, since he was...
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More Bad News For Co-Op
One awkward detail for Ed Balls in the Prudential Regulatory Authority’s first report assessing British banks out yesterday. The Co-Op bank told them they currently hold £1.7 billion of core capital,...
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Ed Ballses Up Brillo Interview
Under pressure from Brillo earlier, Balls coughed that he believed “the cuts are deeper than they need to be” for the spending review. Meanwhile spinners were pushing the line that Labour will stick...
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Ed Balls Photobomb at Hamleys Toy Shop Shoot
Never work with children or animals… Via Telegraph/Getty. Tagged: Balls
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Red Balls: Too Far, Too Fast, Too Often
Ed Balls – well, his lawyer – has been up in front of the magistrates yet again, pleading guilty to his third road offence in three years. Readers will remember how Balls ‘fessed up to being ordered...
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Balls Limo Ran Over Pensioner
A 65-year-old retired journalist has accused Ed Balls’ limo of running him over then driving off at a TUC conference. Tony Patey was admitted to hospital with a gashed leg after the alleged incident....
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Labour Stars Turn Out For Fabian Gala Dinner
Finally Ed Balls has turned up. The suspiciously absent Shadow Chancellor held court at the Fabian Society’s champagne reception at the National Liberal Club last night. Following in a tradition their...
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Labour Big Beasts Bash Balls
No other way of reading this piece by John Denham and Peter Hain in today’s Guardian other than as a thinly veiled slight at Ed Balls. They talk of Miliband’s perceived recognition that “many of the...
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New Plan B: Re-Write History
A rather kind piece on the BBC website from Stephanie Flanders about how Ed Balls will react to Osborne’s speech. She helpfully lists possible lines for the Shadow Chancellor: “In reply, Mr Balls will...
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Balls in Bed With McBride
Perhaps the most awkward anecdote yet from McBride’s book. Passed out drunk and naked on his bed at Labour conference, McBride had to be woken by Ed Balls. With mentally scarring consequences: “When I...
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Labour Owe Troubled Co-Operative Bank £3,391,000
The Co-Op bank’s £1.5 billion black hole will see 50 branches closed after the ‘ethical’ bank went cap in hand to hedge funds rescuers. In 1999 the Labour Party borrowed £3,580,000 from the bank and...
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Red Ed Wine
Co-conspirators searched far and wide for a photo of Miliband drinking in a pub, and on the evidence above it seems pint-less Ed isn’t too keen on the stuff. That is unless the pub in question stocks...
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Red Balls
Osborne’s reaction to Balls telling him he is in “denial”: Which, judging by the colour of his face, hit Balls where it hurt: Worst Balls performance since… well, his Autumn Statement reply in 2012....
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IDS Responds to Balls Jibe
The Work and Pensions secretary’s reaction to Balls’ “IDS – In Deep Shambles” line today. Tagged: Balls, IDS
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