Ed Balls, Children, Schools and Families Secretary, responding to David Cameron's commitment to prioritise tax cuts for the wealthiest few instead of public services, said: "Once again we see where David Cameron's priorities lie and whose side he is really on. "This morning the Tory leader confirmed that even in these difficult times his first priority is not to help people who've l...

SCHOOLS Secretary Ed Balls today launched a consultation on plans to allow summer-born children in England to start school at the age of four.

The Daily Mail - which has the photograph - reports: Ed Balls makes great play of the fact that his Oxford contemporaries David Cameron and Boris Johnson were members of the Bullingdon Club, notorious for its rowdy drunken behaviour. Last year, 41-year-old Mr Balls declared: 'World-class education not for all, but for the privileged elite - that is Cameron Conservatism. And who is David Camer...

Campaign takes to the streets and online at www.saveoursurestart.com. David Cameron's cuts to Sure Start children's centres would deal a devastating blow to families in the East Midlands who are on middle and modest incomes - that was the message from Labour's Regional Minister, Phil Hope MP, as local 'Save Our Sure Start' campaigns against Tory plans to take £200 mi...

Ed Balls MP, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, said in response to the Bank of England’s decision on a further £75 billion of quantitative easing:

Back in June 2007, when Ed Balls was appointed secretary of state for Children, Schools and Families, I did suggest he might come a cropper some day:I’ll be interested to see how long it is before Balls’ tone-deaf touch lands the Government in hot water.That day came on Wednesday, with his heckling of David Cameron’s budget response, when it is alleged he shouted “So what?&...

One in seven future school rebuilding projects across England would be cancelled by the Conservatives under plans revealed in their own policy document, Labour's Children’s Secretary Ed Balls MP and Schools Minister Vernon Coaker MP warned today. The warning came as Ed Balls MP and Vernon Coaker MP today announced that a further six local authorities had been approved to join the Buildi...

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...

David Cameron's cuts to Sure Start children's centres would deal a devastating blow to families in Cornwall on middle and modest incomes – that was the message from Jude Robinson as she launched Cornwall Labour Party's 'Save Our Sure Start' campaign against Tory plans to take £200 million from Sure Start. On the same day that Labour announced it has delivered o...

David Cameron wants to be seen as a caring localist, wants to break the power of state service provision and save money. He can have two of these three things, but trying for all of them will destroy him. David Cameron’s speech yesterday was a perfect example of how politicians deal with contradictory impulses. Cameron set