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

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

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 ...

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

Mr Gove is getting a reputation for this sort of stuff. I wonder if he does kids parties also ? ( H/T to SPOILTBALLOT ). PS Watch how much Ed Balls is enjoying this ....

...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]...

It's a story that risks getting buried (conveniently for the Government?) amid the Budget, but shadow children, schools and families secretary Michael Gove is demanding a "profound apology" from his opposite number in the Government, Ed Balls, over the collapse...

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...

Children's Secretary Ed Balls challenges his Tory shadow Michael Gove to a public debate on education standards.

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...