		<div class="wpcnt">
			<div class="wpa">
				<span class="wpa-about">Advertisements</span>
				<div class="u top_amp">
							<amp-ad width="300" height="265"
		 type="pubmine"
		 data-siteid="111265417"
		 data-section="2">
		</amp-ad>
				</div>
			</div>
		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/miliband-to-fight-hard-on-return.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Labour Party leader Ed Miliband (left) with Shadow Education Secretary Ed Balls" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-miliband-to-fight-hard-on-return.jpg" alt="Labour Party leader Ed Miliband (left) with Shadow Education Secretary Ed Balls"/></a></p>
<p>Ed Miliband will be &#8220;fighting hard&#8221; when he returns to Parliament after taking paternity leave, shadow home affairs spokesman Ed Balls said.</p>
<p>Mr Balls said the Labour leader had been working on a speech to the National Policy Forum (NPF), the body responsible for the party&#8217;s policy development, for the &#8220;last couple of weeks&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Miliband&#8217;s two-week absence after the birth of his second son Samuel has coincided with reports of infighting among Gordon Brown&#8217;s Cabinet in the run up to the general election.</p>
<p>Political historians Anthony Seldon and Guy Lodge have suggested in their book Brown At 10 &#8211; serialised in the Daily Mail &#8211; that Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman held a secret meeting on New Year&#8217;s Eve for &#8220;key plotters&#8221; to discuss how to remove Mr Brown.</p>
<p>Mr Balls, a key aide of the former PM, dismissed the report as &#8220;rumours&#8221; and said he did not meet with Ms Harman on December 31 last year.</p>
<p>He told BBC1&#8217;s Andrew Marr Show: &#8220;I was at home on our New Year&#8217;s Eve with friends who weren&#8217;t in the Cabinet. For some reason I don&#8217;t get invited to these dinners, I don&#8217;t know why.</p>
<p>&#8220;There have always been these rumours. Fundamentally, the Labour Party, the MPs and actually the country said: &#8216;We don&#8217;t want a change of Prime Minister, we want a Labour Party which is going to stand up against an Opposition party which was going to propose in the general election campaign a VAT rise and spending cuts&#8217;.</p>
<p>&#8220;That should have been our priority, that was my priority and I think it was actually the priority of the vast majority of Labour Party members, I hope Cabinet members too.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Balls added: &#8220;Ed Miliband and I were both shoulder to shoulder with the Prime Minister.</p>
<p>&#8220;And throughout that whole period, Labour Party members and MPs and the public were saying: &#8216;Try and win that general election&#8217;. That&#8217;s what I was trying to do.&#8221;</p>
			<div style="padding-bottom:15px;" class="wordads-tag" data-slot-type="belowpost">
				<div id="atatags-dynamic-belowpost-69027b3d777cd">
					<script type="text/javascript">
						window.getAdSnippetCallback = function () {
							if ( false === ( window.isWatlV1 ?? false ) ) {
								// Use Aditude scripts.
								window.tudeMappings = window.tudeMappings || [];
								window.tudeMappings.push( {
									divId: 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-69027b3d777cd',
									format: 'belowpost',
								} );
							}
						}

						if ( document.readyState === 'loading' ) {
							document.addEventListener( 'DOMContentLoaded', window.getAdSnippetCallback );
						} else {
							window.getAdSnippetCallback();
						}
					</script>
				</div>
			</div>
Discover more from London Glossy Post
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
