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Ed Balls on his alternative plan for housing

1 September 2010

The Labour Party leadership candidate tells Carl Brown why he’d spend £6 billion on social housing.

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  • Anonymous | 01/09/2010 1:19 pm

    Timely interview. Your boy is being comprehensively emascualted by Blair's book.

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  • Anonymous | 02/09/2010 10:32 am

    No new thinking this way comes.

    'Sack em' Balls is unbelievably illiberal

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  • Sidney Webb

    Sidney Webb | 02/09/2010 1:24 pm

    I'd blame his housing advisor - perhaps she should stop talking to her husband

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