CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY   Speech to Labour Party Conference - Ed Balls MP, Shadow Education Secretary Ed Balls MP, Labour's Shadow Education Secretary, speaking to Labour Party Conference today, said:

Ed Balls has produced a contract with the Labour party. Three things strike me about it. First, he emphasizes broader consultation and promises a greater role for activists and local representatives. These political impulses are championed by the coalition – an indication that Cameron and Clegg’s partnership is beginning to change Britain party political landscape. Second, Balls is a p...

THE Labour Party cannot expect the coalition government to disintegrate and should prepare itself for a five-year period in opposition, leadership candidate Ed Balls has warne

Labour Party leadership candidate Ed Balls was in Swindon today, (Shown pictured above talking to about 25 party members, supporters and trade unionists; the other picture shows Ed chatting with Councillor Derique Montaut, leader of the Labour group on Swindon Borough Council). This was the first of these events that he is intending around the

Ed Balls MP, Labour's Shadow Education Secretary, speaking to Labour Party Conference today, said: Conference Today - all across our country - millions of children are going to school no longer putting up with leaking roofs or peeling walls… …but instead going to one of the 4,000 brand new or fully refurbished schools built in the last thirteen years by our Labour government. So...

Tomorrow's News of the World is reporting that Ed Balls has promised to oust Gordon Brown by the time of (possibly at) the Party conference if Labour's polling hasn't improved by then.Although Balls is fiercely loyal to his close chum Gordon, he apparently puts the party above that. Indeed, the party comes before everything else (i.e. including the country) with Labour, as this quote clearly

Alan Johnson was put in charge of Labour’s economic strategy for two reasons. The first was for fairly gimmicky purposes. It was taken as read by the media that Ed Miliband would appoint Ed Balls or – on an outside chance – Yvette Cooper. But the second reason was more important: it was to placate the still-powerful Blairite faction within the Labour Party.

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...

Ed Balls calls for tax cuts as he warns of a lost decade of stagnation at the Labour Party Conference 2011. Here is his speech in full.

Labour Party Conference: Ed Balls is to announce a pledge on "tough fiscal rules" in the party's election manifesto.