Though others are viewing the demotion of Angela Eagle from Shadow Chief Secretary as a move by Ed Miliband to clip the wings of Ed Balls, it does mean Miliband has sacked from his Treasury team one of the Labour MPs with the most dramatically wrong track-records when it comes to economic predictions.
Keeping her well away from future economic policy it would seem is no bad move at all on Ed Miliband’s part.
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RT @markpack New from me: Ed Miliband certainly got one thing right in his reshuffle – http://t.co/qDxJFhKv