Has Balls lost out in the Darling row?

The Alistair Darling story just keeps on rolling.  The latest comes courtesy of Benedict Brogan, who writes on his excellent blog that “relations between Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown remain remarkably good … Talk of rows and explosions since the Guardian hit the streets on Friday night are wide of the mark”.  So might the limelight now fall on Ed Balls?  The schools secretary is widely believed to be behind the spate of “Darling to be axed in a forthcoming reshuffle” rumours circling around.  But if things are good between Brown and Darling – and if that implies that Darling is safe in his job – then the PM may not look too kindly on any efforts to unseat the Chancellor and make the government look even more divided than it is in the process.

UPDATE: Not that it necessarily means anything, but No.10 has just denied there’s a rift with the Chancellor.