Blog posts tagged "Ed Balls"

January 11, 2010 9:01 am 15 Comments

Last week's failed plot to oust Gordon Brown as Labour leader may be the consequence of the fact that Cabinet control over the prime minister has all but collapsed, blogs Jon Snow.

June 5, 2009 9:01 am No Comments

Crumbs! An act of personal political courage – or of scheming personal political advancement? At this point almost impossible to judge. I don’t know James Purnell well. He was once a pivotal bag carrier, speech writer and muse inside Tony Blair’s Downing Street. Hence a Blairite, almost certainly well aware of, and wary of, Gordon [...]