The stock response of many Coffee Housers will be ‘Who Cares?’ but surely Ed Balls will be nominated for the Labour leadership? Labour may recognise that a Balls leadership would likely end in Footian catastrophe but he will, in all certainty, proceed to the next round. Surely? Like Pete and Ben Brogan, I reckon Balls and David Miliband allowed their supporters to declare in a steady t...

Alastair Campbell says the Guardian's leader is a cry for attention James Forsyth on Coffee House thinks D-Day will get in the way of a Friday re-shuffle Ben Brogan is unmoved by the Guardian ConservativeHome's Tim Montgomerie peers into his crystal ball Letters From A Tory is quaking in his boots at the thought of Ed Balls at the Treasury The Diary of a Geek in Oxfordshire is Reviewing ...

Ed Miliband delivered his first speech as Labour leader in Manchester earlier but how did Daily Telegraph Deputy Editor Ben Brogan rate his performance?

It hasnt been a very good day for Mr & Mrs Balls-Cooper, has it? First of all Yvette Cooper put her foot in it on the Today Programme this morning, as I blogged earlier. This evening it has been her husband, Ed's turn. This is what he told the Yorkshire Labour Conference this weekend, according to Ben Brogan... The economy is going to define our politics in Britain in the next year, t...

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

Listening to the extraordinary performance of Ed Balls this morning - as shameless a piece of political nonsense as I have ever sat through - I suddenly understood the importance of the botched reshuffle. Ed Balls's desire to be Chancellor...

After one of the many sections in Ed Balls’ speech on the economy, there was a telling moment as Ed Miliband clapped half-heartedly with a thoughtful look on his face. One could almost see him trying to work out with whether he agreed enough with what Balls was saying to make him shadow Chancellor. There are dangers in both him making Balls’ shadow Chancellor and not. If he does make B...

In the bars and restaurants of Manchester there are whispers that Gordon Brown is considering a reshuffle with at its heart the appointment of his favourite Ed as Chancellor. Balls to that, say some observers, but stranger things have happened. Is this the face of the next Chancellor? Jon Craig noted that Brown is preparing for a reshuffle in the days after the Tory conference ends. This is e...

Ed Balls has admitted he would like to be Chancellor and has not ruled out leading the Labour party one day.

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...