Ed Balls liked to tell the hustings that he was the one the Tories feared most, hence the attacks on him from the right-wing media. Guido takes the opposite view, he is the one that opponents of the Labour Party most badly want to win the Labour leadership because he would be as disastrous as his mentor was for Labour. Today during PMQs Guido polled online 462 co-conspirators during the PMQs live-chat to test the theory. The results are clear:

39% of co-conspirators want Ed Balls to be Labour leader, 30% want Abbot, 23% Ed Miliband, 7% David Miliband and only 2% Andy Burnham. If only, alas punters make Balls favourite to be eliminated in the first round…