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Eds will roll...

'Would I like to be chancellor? I'd love it.'

Eds will roll

So Ed Balls didn't want Alistair Darling's job of chancellor in 2009? So says Big Ed himself, in an interview attempting to rebuff a ‘leak' of Darling's memoirs across pretty much the entire news media last week.

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