Ten points about the Ed Balls interview

Ed Balls gets personal in his interview with the Times (£) today, but not in the way you might expect. For most of the piece he dwells on what the paper calls his “hidden vulnerability” – the effort to contain his stammer. And from there on, the politics seems a touch softer than usual. There are surprisingly few overt attacks on his opponents, and those that make the cut are considerably less violent that we’re used too.

Which isn’t to say that the interview lacks politics. No sirree. Here’s a ten-point selection of some of the political highlights (so to speak), with my added comments:   
 
1) Doubling back on a double dip.
Balls says of a double dip recession: “I don’t think that’s the most likely outcome but it is certainly a possibility … The most likely thing is that the economy will grow but it will be pretty anaemic.”