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Ed Balls
Labour MP for Morley and Outwood
Biography
Appointed by Labour leader Ed Miliband to replace Alan Johnson as Shadow Chancellor on 20 January 2011. Previously Shadow Home Secretary. Ed Balls lost the Labour leadership contest to Ed Miliband.
Image: Ed Balls used with permission from the official Labour party web site.
Also known as
Edward Balls
Ed Balls's connections
Paul Clark
was Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Gillingham and Rainham in the 2010 general election
Interestingly enough...
Ed Balls was a Cabinet colleague of Gordon Brown - source: Wikipedia
Ed Balls worked closely in the 90s with Geoffrey Robinson - source: The Telegraph
Charlie Whelan worked closely in the 90s with Ed Balls - source: The Telegraph
Ed Balls was economic adviser from 1994 to 1997 to Gordon Brown - source: New Statesman
Ed Balls has been married since 1998 to Yvette Cooper - source: New Statesman
Ed Balls is the brother of Andrew Balls - source: First blood to Balls the elder
Gavin Kelly was recruited to the Treasury by Ed Balls - source: Gordon Brown's biggest influences
Tony Cooper is the father-in-law of Ed Balls - source: Wikipedia
Michael Dugher is a supporter of Ed Balls - source: independent.co.uk
Gordon Brown also worked with Ed Balls - source: Ed Balls: official website
CV
- 1999 - 12
- The then chancellor, Gordon Brown, promoted Ed Balls to chief economic adviser at the Treasury in 1999. - source: Ed Balls' website
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- Ed Balls has been Labour MP for the Normanton constituency since May 2005. - source: TheyWorkForYou
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- Ed Balls moved into the Treasury with Gordon Brown when Labour won the 1997 general election, continuing as economic advisor to the now chancellor. - source: Ed Balls Website
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- Balls was economics leader writer and columnist for the Financial Times from 1990–94. - source: edballs.co.uk
Education
- When Ed Balls was five, his family moved to Eton, where his father taught for one term on an exchange scheme. Ed Balls started his schooling at a state primary in Windsor down the road. - source: http://johnrentoul.independentminds.livejournal.com/21149.html
- Ed Balls attended Nottingham High School. - source: http://www.nottinghamhigh.co.uk/senior-school/senior-school-news/ed-balls-visits-his-old-school/
- Ed Balls read PPE at Oxford and graduated with a first-class degree. - source: edballs.co.uk
- Ed Balls attended the John F Kennedy School of Government in the United States as a Kennedy scholar. - source: edballs.co.uk
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