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| Affiliation | Labour |
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2010-06-01 |
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| Name | Ed Balls |
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Castleford, West Yorkshire, England , United Kingdom |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
 X (Twitter) | edballs |
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February 25, 1967
(57 years)
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| Contributor | Some say... |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
Nov 11, 2023 07:07pm |
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| Info | Ed Balls is the Labour and Co-op Member of Parliament for the Morley and Outwood constituency and the Shadow Chancellor. He was elected at the 2010 General Election. Previously he was the MP for Normanton from 2005-10. Ed was Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families from June 2007 until May 2010, and was previously Economic Secretary to the Treasury.
Ed was born in 1967 and educated at Nottingham High School; Keble College, Oxford; and the John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard.
Prior to his election as an MP, Ed was a teaching fellow in the Department of Economics, Harvard, 1989–90, and an economics leader writer and columnist for the Financial Times, 1990–94.
From 1994 to 1997 Ed was economic adviser to the then shadow chancellor, Gordon Brown MP. He was economic adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1997–99; chief economic adviser to HM Treasury, 1999–2004; and a research fellow at the Smith Institute, 2004–05.
Ed is author of a number of publications on economics and finance and is a member of Unite the Union, Unison and the Co-operative Party.
Ed is married to Yvette Cooper, the MP for the constituency of Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford. They have three children – Ellie, Joe and Maddy – and live in Castleford. Outside work his interests include music, cooking and playing football with his children.
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