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...

Saturday’s Guardian has an interview with Ed Balls: Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, has moved to challenge accusations that Labour is not credible on the economy by telling the public sector unions that he endorses George Osborne’s public sector pay freeze until the end of the parliament, and that he accepts every spending cut… “My

Ed Balls MP, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, has today written to George Osborne calling on the Government to deliver fairness in pay restraint.

Ed Balls MP, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, has written to George Osborne MP over his claims this morning on health spending.

Chancellor George Osborne gets a pleasant surprise to see his opponent Ed Balls dressed as Father Christmas.

Ed Balls MP, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, in response to George Osborne’s interview on the Today programme and the IMF’s Article IV statement published at a Treasury press conference today, said:

Ed Miliband has just taken the biggest risk of his leadership in appointing Ed Balls as his shadow Chancellor. Balls’ is not a man who take orders and his view on the deficit is noticeably different from Ed Miliband’s. He is also the person most closely associated with Gordon Brown’s economic record. George Osborne will relish this fight. During the vacuum between Ed Miliband win...

The Chancellor jokes that Ed Balls' record on the economy is equivalent to the job done by Eric Pickles' personal trainer.

You certainly can't fault Ed Balls for chutzpah. After the weekend he has just experienced, the shadow chancellor has an article in today's Mirror accusing George Osborne of "spinning out of control". It is pure, triple-distilled Balls: a fiery attack on both his political opponents and their policies. So let's sup deep and read the whole thing, alongside my comments: THIS...

The children's secretary, Ed Balls, has admitted he would love to be chancellor of the exchequer "at some time in the future", but insisted in an interview released yesterday that he totally supported the chancellor Alistair Darling as a far-sighted and brave politician. Speaking to the New Statesman, Balls denied he was making plans to run for the Labour leadership after Gordon Brown leaves ...