The silent Shadow Chancellor is still keeping quiet despite some heavy briefing against him from colleagues at the weekend. One Labour MP told the Mail:

“Balls used to throw his weight around in Shadow Cabinet meetings and ignore Ed Miliband when he spoke. Now Balls is totally out of sorts. He doesn’t say much at Shadow Cabinet meetings and when he does, he is the one who is ignored. He has lost his mojo.”

Silence yesterday as well. So where was he? Hidden away at a very safe distance up in Scotland bravely knocking on doors with his old boss Gordon Brown, it turns out:

Campaigning in #Cowdenbeath this afternoon with @edballsmp @JohannLamont and @OfficeGSBrown for @scottishlabour pic.twitter.com/R9FnC8k7NQ

— Garreth Lodge (@redhotraggle) January 20, 2014

Anyone would think he was cursed…