Diane Abbott publicly attacks Ed Balls
Former shadow health minister Diane Abbott has taken to The Guardian website to launch a fairly scathing attack…
Ed Balls
The government are trying to tell you that you’re not squeezed. They’re wrong
Have you heard? You’re not squeezed anymore. That’s right! After four years of prices rising faster than wages,…
Milburn urges pro-business approach in run-up to 2015
Alan Milburn, the former Labour Health Secretary, has urged Ed Miliband and Ed Balls to adopt a more…
London Marathon – how the Labour MPs performed
MPs running the London Marathon has become a bit of a thing this year. Ed Balls is on…
Balls says Tory bingo budget advert ‘made my skin crawl’
In an interview with ITN today, Ed Balls slammed the Grant Shapps “bingo poster” as patronising and said…
Balls confirms Labour will vote for Osborne’s welfare cap next week
Today George Osborne confirmed that there will be a vote next week on a new welfare cap. This…
Balls says scrap Marriage Tax Allowance to fund tax cut for working people
In a pre-budget interview with the BBC’s Nick Robinson, Ed Balls has said that Osborne should use next…
“There’s always been more that unites us than divides us” – Mandelson speech at balls fundraiser
It’s fair to say that Peter Mandelson and Ed Balls haven’t always been close allies in the past,…
Balls slams Lib Dem “broken promises” and says he won’t “let them off the hook”
Some within the Labour Party were slightly perturbed recently when Ed Balls appeared to be encouraging a warmer…
Labour’s challenge is to exhibit the behaviours of fiscal conservatism
On fiscal policy and party reform, Labour has made two big moves in the last week. If I…
