Ed Balls: I didn’t know McBride was briefing against ministers

Ed Balls was in a bullish mood this morning when he did his round of broadcast interviews. The Shadow Chancellor did his best to get all huffy when it was put to him that the Tories don't much like his idea that the OBR should audit party manifestos, saying:

'I not only want it to happen, I think it will happen. So because the Conservative party will play party politics with trying to give the public reassurance that all parties' manifestos add up, to rebuild trust in politics, then it won't happen? That's their choice, but I don't think that's what they'll do.' But he saved his real righteous indignation for the section of the interview on Damian McBride.