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

As Co-operative Party Conference kicks off today in Westminster Central Hall, Patrick Wintour in the Guardian trails the announcement that Ed Balls will make later about co-operative trust schools:Ed Balls, the schools secretary and only member of the Co-operative Party in the cabinet*, will today propose that 100 schools over the next two years become co-operative trust schools owned and controll...

So fraternal rivalry it is, then, as Ed Miliband prepares to announce his leadership bid at a Fabian Society conference today. And, reading his interview with the Guardian, it's clear that Ed Balls is soon going to follow suit. Two Eds, two leadership bids, and much shared rhetoric about "listening" to voters. But the similarities don't end there. The passage where Ed Balls arg...

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...

Let’s start with what Ed Balls, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor said in the Guardian on January 14th: My starting point is, I am afraid, we are going to have keep all these cuts. There is a big squeeze happening on budgets across the piece. The squeeze on defence spending, for instance, is £15bn by 2015. We

Ed Balls MP, Labour's Shadow Chancellor, in response to economic growth figures for EU countries published today, said:

In today's Guardian Martin Kettle dissects the absurdity of Ed Balls' politics: Faced with Lord Laming's report on Baby P, does one laugh or cry? The man who delivered a bureaucratic blizzard of 108 recommendations after Victoria Climbié's death and helped overload a system that failed Baby P was surely not the right man to think of 58 more. But the reaction of Ed Balls,...

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...

Ed Balls MP, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, said in response to the OECD’s Economic Outlook published today:

by Rt Hon Ed Balls, Shadow Chancellor [This] conference – … to debate The Economic Alternative – is, without doubt, being held in the shadow of [great] events: - political deadlock and an abject failure of economic leadership in the Euro area, Britain and the US Congress; - following on from the biggest global financial crisis