Armando Iannucci: Oh how careless - now they've mislaid Jacqui Smith

And now here's a round-up of some of the stories we may all have missed... Labour 'will not contest' the next general election Schools Secretary Ed Balls today angrily denounced the Conservatives for 'making mischief' with their suggestion that there should be a general election in the next year or so. 'This is pure gimmickry,' said the pudge-faced schools boss in response to Tory leader David Cameron's challenge yesterday that his party 'will resign our seats en masse within the next two years and provoke a general election in which we can talk about the government's record'. 'This is single-issue politics gone mad,' said Balls. 'There are a number of things this government is committed to. Our record is only one of them. The public would prefer us to concentrate on the job at hand rather than get sucked into this sort of... [read full story]