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  All Osborne said was that Balls had questions to answer, he has.
  
  Look at the actual words in the article in question:
  
  'He starts by blaming the regulatory system devised by Brown and Balls for allowing these abuses to happen. But suddenly, and far more explosively, he moves on to the political efforts to keep Libor low during the financial crisis of 2008. 'As for the role of the Labour government and the people around Gordon Brown — well I think there are questions to be asked of them,' he says. He starts to discuss reports that those in the Brown circle were pressuring Barclays to manipulate the Libor rate it was paying. Then he drops a bombshell: 'They were clearly involved and we just haven't heard the full facts, I don't think, of who knew what when.'
  
  All of the above is fair enough with no specific individual fingered and he highlights some clear issues that need to be answered. he goes on later in the interview and says:
  
  'My opposite number was the City minister for part of this period and Gordon Brown's right hand man for all of it. So he has questions to answer as well. That's Ed Balls, by the way.'
  
  That seems fair enough to me. Balls certainly does have questions to answer and his hysterical reaction to this article suggests he has something to hide.l

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