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By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk * Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg held a secret meeting last week - just before Ed Balls was appointed shadow chancellor... * Miliband admits he's still learning things about himself. * Johnson tells his local…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk There's a fascinating article by Allegra Stratton in the Guardian tomorrow, which reveals that the Miliband brothers are teaming up for the first time since the leadership election to relaunch and expand…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk If Ed Miliband could only read five blogposts each day, he'd read these ones... A backwards step - Hopi Sen By Hopi Sen The new GDP data is really, really bad. It's completely fair to say the snow impacted…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk If Ed Miliband could only read five blogposts each day, he'd read these ones... Why violence plays into the hands of the Government - Left Futures By Owen Jones Let me conjure up a fictitious, but entirely…
By Shibley Rahman / @shibleylondon I would be very surprised if Tom Baldwin and Ed Balls didn't have a meeting early on to consider how the new Tory Director of Communications might 'attack' Ed Balls. The media - both broadsheet and tabloid…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk If Ed Miliband could only read five blogposts each day, he'd read these ones... Why the 'indispensable' Andy Coulson had to go - Next Left By Sunder Katwala As a bleeding-heart liberal, I would certainly…
By James Fitzpatrick On Saturday morning Ed Miliband addressed the Fabian conference and his topic of choice was electoral reform. Whilst his audience seemed to lap up the leader's speech (and you would expect that from a Fabian audience…
By Rob Marchant / @rob_marchant There are - thankfully - some positives we can glean from all of this. There is the fact that Balls can now bring his undoubted talent and expertise to the economic brief. There is also the fact that Johnson…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft For the new partnership to last four years rather than four months, Miliband may need his new shadow chancellor to complete a personal reinvention as a frontline politician. Ed Balls was - from 1997 to 2004…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk I'm not going to pretend I saw today's changes coming, or that I thought Alan Johnson's appointment was a mistake from the start. Only days ago I told a friend that I could see Johnson stepping down as…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Update: Here's Ed Balls' reaction to taking on the shadow chancellor brief: "It is a great honour to be appointed to this post, and to succeed my friend and colleague Alan Johnson whose commitment to…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk If Ed Miliband could only read five blogposts each day, he'd read these ones... Inflation rise not all Tories' fault - but VAT rise is - Alastair Campbell By Alastair Campbell If a Labour government were…
