Keeping The Balls In

Ed Balls is facing no contest in 2015. Despite his having a majority of only 1,101, the local Conservative Association, in second place, has had no applicants to stand against him. Not one.

Add in that UKIP now openly wants a deal with Labour, and has not been rebuffed. Balls is the single most prominent Eurosceptic in British politics, not an unrelated fact.

Balls really could be looking at re-election unopposed.