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Balls attacks Gove’s ‘thoughtless”, “shambolic” assault on schools – 8 in the morning, July 9th

8amBy Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

* Writing in the Guardian, Ed Balls says that Michael Gove’s cancellation of the Building Schools for the Future programme has been a “thoughtless” and “shambolic” assault on our schools.

* The Mirror says: Labour was busy rebuilding the nation’s schools when it lost power. The Tories have reversed that policy, scrapping investment in our children’s future.

* The OBR must be urgently reformed if its independence is to be assured, says the Centre for Economic and Business Research.

* And the OBR was “plunged into fresh controversy” last night, after it was accused of making “methodological changes” to forecasts ahead of George Osborne’s buget.

* House prices are heading for a crash next year, experts have warned.

* Sunder Katwala has put together some classic 80s pop hits to describe Michael Gove’s shambles.

* Afghanistan is a catastrophe. But we’ll have to wait for another Chilcot to admit it, says Simon Jenkins.

* With more updates from meetings this week to follow later, David Miliband on 50 CLP nominations last night, Ed Miliband on 46, Andy Burnham on 10, Diane Abbott on 9 and Ed Balls on 5.

Alex is the founder and CEO of The Cares Family. He was editor and first director of LabourList in 2009-2010, during which time he established the site as the number one Labour blog, and later an aide to Ed Miliband.

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