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...

The Speaker has ordered Ed Balls to the Chamber to answer questions about the whole Sats debacle. The question is who will enjoy watching Michael Gove skewer Balls more, Tory MPs or Balls's enemies on the Labour benches. 

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

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 ....

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 ...

One of the more disgraceful aspects of the Sats scandal is Ed Balls's attempt to deny all responsibility for the fiasco. Michael Gove rightly roasts Balls for this in The Guardian this morning: “Balls is keen on accountability when it suits him. He has used the power of his office to harry successful faith schools and to name and shame those schools the prime minister calls "failing". We hav...

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

Is Michael Gove’s school reform a hideous distortion of the Labour Academies programme, as Ed Balls put it, or the fulfillment of that agenda? Until now Lord Adonis, the architect of the Academies programme, has kept silent on the issue. But he’s interviewed in The Spectator tomorrow by Matthew Smith, editor of Attain magazine. Here is a brief extract: 'Ed Balls has declared Gove&...

Pressure mounting on Schools Secretary Ed Balls to publicly apologise over this summer's Sats fiasco.