Transcripts of interviews conducted as research for Gordon Brown:
The First Year In Power by Hugh Pym & Nick Kochan,
published by Bloomsbury in June 1998
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Ed Balls - the secret interviews Part Two
In this next instalment of the Balls interviews, we hear more revelations about Brown’s Treasury. Specific topics include:
Ball’s highly negative view of Tony Blair’s personal economic advisor Derek Scott
How Scott bad-mouthed Will Hutton and his book, The State We’re In
Balls’s relationship with Brown and Blair: Balls proposes, Tony says Fine
How Gordon got control of the social and economic agenda
Confusion in The Treasury over the date of the 1997 Budget
Treasury Mandarins bowed to Balls as Brown’s spokesman
Further revelations about the Government’s creation of an independent Bank of England
How and Why the Treasury still has a role in setting interest rates
How the Bank of England and Eddie George fell victim to clever public relations.
