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Ed Balls

The Right Honourable
Ed Balls
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Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office
20 January 2011 – 8 May 2015
Leader Ed Miliband
Shadowing George Osborne
Preceded by Alan Johnson
Succeeded by Chris Leslie
Shadow Home Secretary
In office
8 October 2010 – 20 January 2011
Leader Ed Miliband
Shadowing Theresa May
Preceded by Alan Johnson
Succeeded by Yvette Cooper
Shadow Secretary of State for Education
In office
11 May 2010 – 8 October 2010
Leader Harriet Harman
Ed Miliband
Shadowing Michael Gove
Preceded by Michael Gove
Succeeded by Andy Burnham
Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families
In office
28 June 2007 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Preceded by Alan Johnson
Succeeded by Michael Gove
Economic Secretary to the Treasury
In office
6 May 2006 – 28 June 2007
Prime Minister Tony Blair
Chancellor Gordon Brown
Preceded by Ivan Lewis
Succeeded by Kitty Ussher
Member of Parliament
for Morley and Outwood
Normanton (2005–2010)
In office
5 May 2005 – 30 March 2015
Preceded by Bill O'Brien
Succeeded by Andrea Jenkyns
Personal details
Born Edward Michael Balls
(1967-02-25) 25 February 1967 (age 49)
Norwich, Norfolk, England
Nationality British
Political party Labour Co-operative
Spouse(s) Yvette Cooper (m. 1998)
Children 3
Alma mater
Religion Christianity (Anglican)
Website www.edballs.co.uk

Edward Michael "Ed" Balls (born 25 February 1967) is a British Labour Party and Co-operative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton from 2005 to 2010 and for Morley and Outwood from 2010 to 2015.

Balls was born the son of Michael and Carolyn Balls in Norwich. He attended Nottingham High School before studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Keble College, Oxford and was later a Kennedy Scholar in Economics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He was a teaching fellow at Harvard from 1988 to 1990, when he joined the Financial Times as the lead economic writer. Balls had joined the Labour Party at university, and became an adviser to Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown in 1994, continuing in this role after Labour won the 1997 general election, and eventually becoming the Chief Economic Advisor to the Treasury.


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