I may be mistaken, but I thought I just heard Ed Balls saying, so as to brush off concerns about school admissions and grandstand the "achievements under Labour", that where he lives all parents get their first choice of school. Hold on, doesn't Ed Balls live in that special enclave where there is that "state" school - as in Grant Maintained and thus a de facto public school paid by the taxpa...

We have, of course, got it all wrong about Gordon Brown's Downing Street, as Ed Balls, a deeply lovely man himself, with nothing but kind words for all about him, has corrected us. The BBC reports him thus - Schools Secretary Ed Balls also told the BBC he did not "recognise this atmosphere" of alleged bullying at Number 10. "Jeremy Heywood, who is the top civil servant, said the opposite was true ...

How can we possibly present a coherent message when our cabinet presents such a contradictory message? If anyone wonders why Labour is in such dire straits then look at the disconnect Ed balls displays between public statements and true belief. At conference Ed Balls has popped up with a newfound conversion to the values of regulating the financial markets. ED BALLS SEPT 21 2008 said :   ...

Meanwhile, in other Labour news, Ed Balls has just jumped into the deep end without any armbands.  Speaking to the BBC this lunchtime, everyone's favourite Labour leadership candidate said that he didn't - and doesn't - approve of Labour's plan to cut the deficit in half "through spending cuts."  As if to underline the point, he added that he's reluctan...

Appearing on The Andrew Marr Show on BBC One, the Prime Minister apologises for comments he made to the Sunday Telegraph about shadow chancellor Ed Balls

During the leadership campaign Ed Balls has demonstrated his willingness to march to the beat of a different drum against the mainstream consensus over the need for spending cuts. However, neither the party membership nor the public seem to have warmed to him. But Ed Balls can do human. Here he is drumming with his pen pall

From last night's BBC documentary on the doomed coalition negotiations between Labour and the Lib Dems: "...antagonistic, bit dismissive, bit arrogant... I think we were taken aback by how they sort of arrogantly thought they were the demanders... they were quite hostile and aggressive about it" - Ed Balls Yes, that's right: Ed Balls.

Labour leadership contender Ed Balls talks to the BBC's chief political correspondent Laura Kuennsberg about his bid to win the contest.

Ed Balls MP is a widely reviled figure in the right-wing press and right-wing blogs. But it's more unfortunate that many on the left have also bought into the narrative that 'Ed Balls is a bully' or that he is unelectable simply because the right-wing press don't like him. But Ken Livingstone last night on Newsnight made a point about Ed Balls that I've heard repeated seve...

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...