Blog posts tagged "Ed Balls"

May 4, 2012 1:50 pm 5 Comments

Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon analyses the local election results.

November 30, 2011 4:51 pm 19 Comments

Political Editor Gary Gibbon on the regional variations of the public sector pension strike as MPs resort to what seems very much like old-fashioned class warfare in the Commons.

January 20, 2011 5:56 pm 7 Comments

Our Political Editor says that Alan Johnson's resignation involved "affairs of the heart" - but there was little love lost until recently between the two Eds now at the top of the Labour Party.

September 1, 2010 8:07 pm 2 Comments

TV hustings on Channel 4 News just now. The first one not conducted by the strict rules that governed all the other ones. So you get a lot of inter-change.

July 15, 2010 3:23 pm 5 Comments

Ed Miliband has got the nomination of the GMB.

July 12, 2010 3:12 pm 1 Comment

Gary Gibbon blogs on how Michael Gove's allies are convinced there is a mole in the education department as the row continues over mistakes in the cancellation of the Building Schools for the Future project.

May 4, 2010 1:23 pm 26 Comments

Will tactical votes in Labour-Conservative constituencies help Labour in the way they did in past elections?

January 11, 2010 4:09 pm 3 Comments

(UPDATED: now with video of Ed Balls interview.) To the QE2 centre in Westminster where Gordon Brown sat on a platform flanked by Ed Balls and Peter Mandelson, a lecturn either side of them. I thought the PM might be about to chair a debate between the two consorts, but alas not. It was an international education conference (which [...]

December 3, 2009 4:37 pm 1 Comment

Gordon Brown may taunt the Tories for inventing policy on the "playing fields of Eton", but his Schools Secretary Ed Balls also spend time at the public school.

September 20, 2009 4:16 pm No Comments

Schools Secretary Ed Balls won't call his planned £2bn "savings" in education budget "cuts" as he is still holding out for real-terms growth in his budget.