What is Ed Balls thinking?

 

Monday 01 October 2012 09:39 BST
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Ed Balls insists he and Ed Miliband work well together
Ed Balls insists he and Ed Miliband work well together (Susannah Ireland)

Not only is the shadow chancellor's sportsmanship currently being called into question, but according to the New Statesman, he's facing pressure from both sides at work.

Perhaps he has a plan, writes Rafael Behr: "Balls will have noticed that the Tories are not as popular with the business community as they would like to be. When that support - and the economic credibility that it brings - is up from grabs, why risk frightening everyone with loose talk of re-engineering the whole of capitalism?"

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