Bagehot: The new look Balls

摘要

Is ed balls going soft? The shadow chancellor of the exchequer and Labour Party tough appears to be pushing the idea. When not baiting the Conservatives, he has been talking up his other hobbies, including cooking and marathon running, in which the tubby Mr Balls understandably takes pride. Sitting his grade one piano exam, as the leaden-fingered politician did last year, was apparently "more frightening" than speaking in the Commons.