Michael Gove: Ed Balls has still to accept a crucial lesson from the Sats fiasco: that he should be held to account for it

...is surely that of Ed Balls and the Guardian's Michael White duelling with lightsabres. For an explanation of that, as well as a cracking Damian Green gag, we must turn to Michael Gove in the Commons yesterday: I was particularly pleased to read about the great fun had by all at the Christmas party held by the Secretary of State at the Department for Children, Schools and Families [Ed Balls - E]...

One of the more disgraceful aspects of the Sats scandal is Ed Balls's attempt to deny all responsibility for the fiasco. Michael Gove rightly roasts Balls for this in The Guardian this morning: “Balls is keen on accountability when it suits him. He has used the power of his office to harry successful faith schools and to name and shame those schools the prime minister calls "failing". We hav...

The prize for most improved conduct goes to Ed Balls and Michael Gove.

Michael Gove has had a pretty good year, continuing his rise and sparring effectively with Ed Balls along the way. He has a sense of humour, as Conservative Home highlights by spotting this gem from the Commons this week. The whole thing merits reading. Gove is on his feet   "I thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and the Government Front-Bench team for their understanding in allowing me ...

Conservative education spokesperson Michael Gove, who repeatedly claimed the reason GCSE exam results have consistently improved with Labour was because GCSE exam questions were getting easier, was left dumbstruck after Ed Balls turned the tables on him. As you’ll see in this recording of the Commons, Ed Balls asks Michael Gove to answer just three

Ed Balls MP, Labour's Schools Secretary, today called on David Cameron and Michael Gove to come clean about the Conservative Party's plans for cuts to education spending. Ed Balls has today written to the shadow schools secretary Michael Gove for the fifth time since the start of April to ask whether the Conservatives would match Labour's extra spending to guarantee a place in schoo...

The Speaker has ordered Ed Balls to the Chamber to answer questions about the whole Sats debacle. The question is who will enjoy watching Michael Gove skewer Balls more, Tory MPs or Balls's enemies on the Labour benches. 

Schools Secretary Ed Balls is being dragged to the headmaster's office on the last day of term/ordered by the Speaker to the Commons* to answer questions on the SATs fiasco.It may be a surprise to Mr Balls but, judging by what he said yesterday, shadow schools secretary Michael Gove will be well prepared for the event.Launching an inquiry by Sir Richard Sykes into the whole examination system, Mr ...

Ed Balls MP, Labour's Schools Secretary, today called on David Cameron and Michael Gove to come clean about the Conservative Party's plans for cuts to education spending. Ed Balls has today written to the shadow schools secretary Michael Gove for the fifth time since the start of April to ask whether the Conservatives would match Labour's extra spending to guarantee a place in schoo...