So, CoffeeHousers, are Eds Balls and Miliband a gruesome twosome or the most sparkling
partnership since Torvill and Dean? I ask only because they’re really pushing the double-act shtick today. There’s their first-ever joint interview in the Evening Standard, for
instance, in which they reminisce about the Shadow Chancellor’s 30th Birthday party, among other things. And then there was their joint appearance to officially launch Labour’s ‘plan for growth’
campaign this afternoon. They were talking policy, but there was also a strong emphasis on their
personal relationship: eye contact, anecdotes, that sort of thing. Blair and Brown we are not, they seemed to be saying.
As for the policy, if you heard Ed Balls’ speech to the Labour party conference, then you’ve heard it before. It was the five-point agenda that he set out that day, and that you can remind yourselves of here.
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