Ed Balls MP, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, in response to today’s US growth figures which report the US economy is now 0.7% above its pre-crisis peak, while the UK is now 3.8% below, said:

Ed Balls says that remarks from the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund support Labour’s growth policies

Ed Balls MP, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, in response to growth figures for the final quarter of 2011, said:

Ed Balls MP, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, said in response to the IMF’s World Economic Outlook update:

It's a relatively easy argument to make that when Ed Balls was loudly opposing the cuts, Labour's positioning in the polls was higher. Since his speech to the Fabians laying out the more complicated position - the fall has been relentless. But I fear the problem is broader than that: Labour just doesn't have a coherent message. The more incoherent the party gets the more voters get ...

Ed Balls and Ed Miliband showed signs of a willingness to capitulate to reality, says Matthew d'Ancona.

Perfect for Friday evening is this: the Gordon Brown-themed version of Ko-Ko's ‘little list’ from The Mikado that Jeff Randall wrote for us back in 2007. The chorus should be sung, according to Jeff, by three people who have been quite prominent this week: Ed Miliband, Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper... The clunking fist, Jeff Randall, The Spectator, 3 March 2007 Britain doesn’t ...

Ed Balls MP, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, has today written to George Osborne calling on the Government to deliver fairness in pay restraint. This follows his article at the weekend in which he said the Government should “ask the pay review bodies to deliver the 1% average settlement cap in a fair way – being tougher to those at the top in order to offer more protection to those at the bottom...

Ed Balls thought he was being ballsy when he spoke of his proposed public sector pay freeze at the Fabian conference on Saturday. The trouble is this is only half of a plan. What’s starkly obvious is what’s missing. What is Labour’s alternative?

This week's Spectator cover has achieved a rare distinction: it's going to be hung up on the wall chez Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper. Or at least that's what the shadow chancellor told Sky's Jon Craig when quizzed about it earlier. You can see the cover image itself, by Stephen Collins, to the left. And below are a few extracts from the article by Melissa Kite that it illustrates....