Ed Balls

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    City centred

    2006-06-23T00:00:00

    Ed Balls has taken over as the Treasury minister in the recent reshuffle - which has made him the liaison man between the world's financial centre and Britain's construction industry

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    Brown's number 10

    2006-03-31T00:00:00

    Three months after everyone thought a recession was inevitable, all the indicators point to a resurgence of growth. Something to do with the Budget perhaps?

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    Consider Horbury

    2006-03-10T00:00:00

    Politicians constantly scrutinise the cost of the public sector building programme - the biggest in our lifetime - but how closely do they examine design standards?

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    On slippery slopes

    2006-02-03T00:00:00

    Most of us have a gut feeling that economies are too important to be left to politicians. Here our new star columnist-cum-Castleford skiing correspondent explains why