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Balls Out, but Who Next?
Guido has surveyed the runners and riders battling it out to replace Ed Balls as Shadow Chancellor for the Paddy Power blog today. You can read his analysis here, while there are a few other names...
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52% Dislike Ed Balls’ Policies
This should do wonders for Ed Balls following his nightmare fortnight. A new Ipsos Mori poll finds that Balls’ policies are rejected by the public by two to one, with 52% disliking and just 26% liking...
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Who is Miliband Going to Fire?
Miliband’s policy on anonymous negative briefings could not have been made any clearer when McBride’s book came out in the autumn. Here is Chuka explaining where they stand: “One of the things Ed has...
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Balls Launches Career Saving Cost Review For Third Time
Fighting for his job, Ed Balls has done what Ed Balls does best and relaunched an old idea to try distract from his current woes. Labour have today announced a zero-base cost review of all public...
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Muppet Miliband and Balls
“You know what Mr Speaker, I will take a lecture from almost anyone in the country about the sale of Royal Mail, but not from the two muppets who advised the last Chancellor on selling the gold.” An...
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Balls Loses Another Internal Labour Battle
Ed’s snoozefest about local government infrastructure reorganisation in Birmingham today has not set the world on fire, despite the protestations of his adoring fans: 24 hr news channels are covering...
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Balls Flees Crash ScenePolice Probing Ed Balls Car Smash Dash
Ed Balls has picked up another trick from his political father Gordon Brown – going missing, Macavity style, from the scene of a crime. The Shadow Chancellor hit another car in Morley on April 5 but...
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Balls’ GDP Nightmare
The shadow chancellor’s Ed Balls Day hangover has not been helped by this morning’s positive GDP figures. One phrase stood out in his response to the news: “Now that growth has finally returned, the...
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Quote of the Day
Ed Balls at Treasury questions:“If this chancellor wants a discussion about whiplash, Mr Speaker, we can do that any day of the week. Mister, Mrs or Mistress – but let’s not go back to the biographies...
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Ed Balls Lies He Had No Role in Co-Op Britannia Merger… But Claimed Credit...
In his interview on Channel 4 News last Night Ed Balls told Cathy Newman: “I had no role at all in the Co-op bank’s merger with Britannia… That’s a Tory smear, it’s entirely untrue.” Yet in this...
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Balls Charged for Hit and RunCoppers Bring Charges After Story Changes
The Shadow Chancellor blogs this afternoon: “I’d been turning our car round in a tight spot in the narrow private drive beside the Labour rooms in Morley where I park all the time. Another car was...
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The Balls Offensive
With Ed Balls dissing Douglas Alexander on LBC last night, this morning his wife Yvette Cooper has launched another broadside against the embattled election coordinator. As Guido reported earlier in...
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WATCH: Balls Blocked From Bilderberg
The fearless truth seekers at InfoWars have captured the moment Ed Balls turned up at the Bilderberg conference in Copenhagen, only to be turned away by police at the gates who didn’t recognise who he...
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Voter Blanks Balls, Shadow Chancellor Tries to Play It Cool
‘Are you buying fish’, he asks while pointing at garlic bread… Tagged: Balls
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Balls Told Constituents He Would Fight Zero Hours Contracts Then Employed...
Talking to his constituents last year Ed Balls railed against so-called zero-hours contracts, launching a stinging attack in the Morley Observer & Advertiser: “Just in this area, thousands are...
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SKETCH: The Ghost of Coulson Reaches Treasury Questions
Treasury questions began with the single most depressing sentence that can fall on Labour ears. The fact is, Osborne declared, we are experiencing the fastest growth in employment since records began....
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Balls Car Crash Dash Case in Court
Ed Balls’ lawyers will today have to explain why the Shadow Chancellor fled the scene of a car crash in April, after hitting another vehicle and speeding off in his Peugeot 306, without contacting the...
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Balls Fined £900
He also gets another five penalty points on his licence for speeding off after hitting another car. Cheaper than the last time he crashed and fled the scene… Tagged: Balls, Crime, Crime Must Not Pay
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The Two Eds Effect: Tories Open Up 25% Poll Lead on Economy
The gap between the Tories and Labour on trust on the economy has widened by 22% since Ed Balls became Shadow Chancellor. In March 2011, two months after Miliband gave Balls the job, Ipsos Mori had...
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WATCH: Sons of Brown Blank Forgotten Gordon
Ed Miliband thanked just about every Labour member who knocked on a door for the Better Together campaign yesterday, everyone except one Gordon Brown. Surely Ed Balls would have a kind word for his old...
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