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Trouble brewing online for Ed Balls

Labour MP Ed Balls at the launch of his leadership campaign
Ed Balls drinks from a mug before launching his party leadership campaign in Nottingham. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

A Labour website thought it would be a good idea to ask readers to put questions to leadership candidate Ed Balls, demonstrating the party has got to grips with new media despite its election defeat, the Times's City Diary reports. It is unlikely they will receive answers. "Have you no shame?" asked one, while another – supposedly from "Yvette Cooper" – asked the former schools minister: "What time will you be home for tea?".

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