This is how Labour will respond to the CSR
The precise details of the Comprehensive Spending Review, due to be announced this afternoon, are not yet known…
Ed Balls
Ken Clarke, Gordon Brown – and why Balls and Miliband are wrong to back Tory spending plans
Shortly after Labour’s landslide victory in 1997, for some perverse reason I invited Ken Clarke to attend one…
Balls says more must be done to boost economy
Hope can triumph over fear
Since the last election many of our friends and foes alike have set two primary “credibility tests” for…
Balls overtakes Osborne as “most capable Chancellor” in latest Ipsos-Mori poll
Update: The poll also continues the recent trend of small Labour leads with ICM – 4 points this…
Ed Balls isn’t knifing universalism. By making Labour electable, he might just be saving it
The most controversial part of Ed Balls’ recent speech was his plan to cut the winter fuel allowance…
Poll shows support for more borrowing to fuel growth and jobs
There’s support for the government investing more money in jobs and economic growth, even if that leads to…
Labour must go for contributory welfare, not more means testing
£100 million may not be an awful lot of money in the scheme of things – around 0.05%…
Ed Balls still feels the need to address Labour’s left rather than the nation
This morning I woke up with a sense of foreboding following the weekend press coverage. Ed Balls was…
2 important things that Ed Balls said today, but the media have largely missed
I’ve just got back from Ed Ball’s speech on the economy this morning at Thompson Reuters and haven’t…
