Ed Balls is consistently inconsistent

In the preview of his keynote speech to this weekend's Fabian Society conference on "The Economic Alternative", Ed Balls says of the coalition's deficit reduction strategy: “Nobody in the Labour Party should get into the idea that it has to be this way”.

In his interview in the Guardian this morning: “My starting point is, I am afraid, we are going to have keep all these cuts.”

Thanks to Guido for this.