ED BALLS faces a backlash from furious MPs, trade union reps and party activists after revealing that harsh benefit cuts would be part of his first budget.
Rebellion brewed yesterday after Mr Balls told Labour conference on Monday that he would freeze child benefit for two years if he becomes chancellor in May.
He insisted Labour “must not flinch from tough decisions” in order to bring down the deficit.
With ‘Your Party’ holding its founding conference in Liverpool this weekend, JEREMY CORBYN speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about its potential, its priorities — and a few of its controversies too
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
ANDY CROFT rallies poets to the impossible task of speaking truth to a tin-eared politician
The BBC and OBR claim that failing to cut disability benefits could ‘destabilise the economy’ while ignoring the spendthrift approach to tens of billions on military spending that really spirals out of control, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP


