Ed Balls: action man – in pictures

“Pretend it’s Miliband’s nutsack! Miliband’s nutsack! Gerrin – yesssss!” Photograph: Reuters

“Any change falls out of your pocket, Burnham, it’s mine. D’you hear me? Mine! That’s my Plan B, Osborne. In your face, boy. In. Your. Face.” Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA

Our man shows off his sensitive side with a medley from the new musical he penned that morning, Phantom of the Shadow Cabinet. Photograph: pixel8000/pixel 8000

At Labour’s 2011 Dance With Your Partner and “Every-Fibre-of-My-Being-Is-Not-Strung-To-the-One-Desire-To-Witness-MiliE’s-Downfall” Face Ball, Yvette Cooper comes second. Photograph: Jeremy Selwyn / Evening Standard

Gordon: “Och, look at ma wee man! Is there nothin’ that he cannae do?” Photograph: Cathal McNaughton/PA

“What you don’t realise, you newt-fancying JUGGINS, is that I am about to burst this ball with my LASER EYES! Mwah-ha-ha-ha-haaaa!” Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA