Ed Balls, who is considered by most (most-some) as a fore-runner for the Labour leadership, yesterday wore his heart on his sleeve and reneged on any sort of loyalty he still had for the ex-prime minister, Gordon Brown, as he told the audience of a Sunday broadsheet that the Ex-PM was out of touch with voters feelings on UK immigration and had been for the last two-years.

Ed Balls is competing for the Labour Leadership

What was more striking about the musings of the ex-Financial Times employee was that he now feels that the European Union rules on allowing workers the freedom to move and work where they wish, within the community, to be outdated and detrimental to the now sprawling UK economy.

This was surely an attempt to fill the void left by the now collated Conservative government, for a cap on migration from within the EU must surely have been muttered within their quarters, however, any plans for such a scheme would have been royally scuppered thanks to the dithering voters of the United Kingdom and new bedfellows the Liberal Democrats.

Step forward Mr Balls, a confirmed Euro-sceptic having successfully helped navigate the country away from the joining of the Euro, with an insight those Gillian Duffy was referring to in her infamous besieging of Gordon Brown would agree with. It appears ‘that woman’ was right and Ed Balls has twigged that this will be a good line to appeal to those voters and the UK public.

Read the Ed Balls European Union story.