By Jonathan Isaby Gordon Brown's reputation for sound economic management was blasted out of the water some time ago. But it is worth remembering that for many years his loyal henchman at the Treasury was one Ed Balls, as the picture here reminds us. It is a screengrab from a BBC film – available online […]
Former Schools Secretary and now Labour leadership contender, Ed Balls, has written in today's Observer about the issue of immigration. While continuing to lazily smear Conservative allies in Europe, Balls now says that Labour were wrong not to impose transitional controls on immigration from Eastern Europe in the mid-Noughties: "There have been real economic gains […]
Significant moves today from the two Eds in the Labour leadership race to distance themselves from the most unpopular legacy of the Blair years; the Iraq war: Ed Balls: "We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country […]