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“I take full responsibility for employing Andy Coulson. I did so on the basis of undertakings I was given by him about phone hacking and those turned out not to be the case. I always said that if they turned out to be wrong that I would make a full and frank apology and I do that today. I am extremely sorry that I employed him. It was the wrong decision and I’m very clear about that.

I asked him questions about if he knew about phone hacking and he said that he didn’t and I accepted those assurances and I gave him the job. I would say that no one has made any complaints about the work that he did for me either as Leader of the Opposition or indeed here in Number 10 Downing Street, but knowing what I now know and knowing that those assurances weren’t right it was obviously wrong to employ him. I gave someone a second chance and it turned out to be a bad decision.”

Interesting interpretation of “full and frank”…

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Yahoo went down to Capital’s Summertime Ball to ask the star-studded line up, including chart-toppers Little Mix and X Factor’s Union J, what they thought of Ed Balls. They spoke for a nation…

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He says he feels “like a star”…

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Rod Liddle had to be “torn apart” on the way out of the studio at the end of this interview on Channel 4 News last night:

Feel the love.

UPDATE: Those who make it their business to be outraged are outraged about Micky Fabricant’s tweet on the subject:

They seem to miss the “I could never” preface to his point.  Predictable…

On the day Ed Miliband made his big new policy announcement on welfare, the BBC is talking about their broken promise on owls:

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Ross Hawk-ins’ finest hour…

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BB: “How is his campaign going to stop Mr Juncker?”

[LAUGHS]

DC: “It’s a simple issue of principle, much more connected to the principle than the name. The principle is this –  and I think it will be shared on every side of the House – that the members of the European Council, the elected Prime Ministers and the elected Presidents, under the treaties, we should choose who runs the European Commission. And I don’t mind how many people on the European Council disagree with me, I will fight this right to the very end. And what I would say to my colleagues on the European Council, many of whom have expressed interesting views about both this principle and this person, if you want reform in Europe you’ve got to stand up for it, if you want change in Europe you’ve got to vote for it. That is the message I will take, and that is the right message for our country.”

Warning other EU leaders to do in public what they are saying about Juncker in private…