Edward Balls

Edward Michael Balls (born February 25, 1967 in Norwich ) is a former British politician of the Labor Party and the Co-operative Party . In the Blair administration he was State Secretary in the UK Treasury. From June 2007 to 2010 he was Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families in the government of Gordon Brown .

biography

Balls went to Nottingham High School , Keble College and the University of Oxford , where he studied PPE ( Philosophy, Politics and Economics ). He was later a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University . While at Oxford he became a member of the Oxford University Conservative Association .

He began his career with the Financial Times in the field of economics from 1990 to 1994. He then became economic advisor to the Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown from 1994 to 1997. In May 2006, Balls became Secretary of State in the UK Treasury. At the end of 2006 he was considered the most successful candidate for the post of finance minister in Great Britain after the planned resignation of Tony Blair . However, he was appointed Minister of Education in mid-2007. Since 2011 he was finance minister in the shadow cabinet of Ed Miliband . In the general election on May 7, 2015 , he lost his constituency of Morley and Outwood with 422 votes difference to the Conservative Andrea Jenkyns and is therefore considered the highest-ranking "victim" of the Labor defeat. Balls announced that he would retire from politics after this defeat.

From June 11th to 14th, 2015 he took part in the 63rd Bilderberg Conference in Telfs-Buchen , Austria .

Balls has been visiting professor at King's College London since October 2015 .

family

Since 1998 Ed Balls is married to the Labor MP for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley, Yvette Cooper (* 1969). The couple has three children. Balls' father is Michael Balls, a former European civil servant and chairman of the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments (FRAME) .

Web links

Personal website. ( Memento from December 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Edward Balls MP . ( Memento of January 9, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) In: Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle
Edward Balls Former MP, Morley and Outwood . theyworkforyou.com,
Voting Record - Edward Balls MP, Normanton (11740) The Public Whip
Larry Elliott, Ashley Seager: Interview: Backroom bruiser steps out from Brown's shadow . The Guardian , July 10, 2004

Individual evidence

↑ Ed Balls on the Co-operative Party's website, accessed December 3, 2018. (English)
↑ Helen Pidd: Ed Balls loses Morley and Outwood seat following recount . The Guardian , May 8, 2015, accessed May 23, 2015.
^ Andrew Sparrow: Ed Balls to give up politics following his surprise defeat at general election . The Guardian, May 22, 2015, accessed May 23, 2015.
↑ King's College London: Ed Balls appointed as Visiting Professor , October 20, 2015, accessed October 29, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Balls, Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Balls, Edward Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British Labor Party politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH	February 25, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH	Norwich

[1] Ed Balls on the Co-operative Party's website, accessed December 3, 2018. (English)

[2] Helen Pidd: Ed Balls loses Morley and Outwood seat following recount . The Guardian , May 8, 2015, accessed May 23, 2015.

[3] Andrew Sparrow: Ed Balls to give up politics following his surprise defeat at general election . The Guardian, May 22, 2015, accessed May 23, 2015.

[4] King's College London: Ed Balls appointed as Visiting Professor , October 20, 2015, accessed October 29, 2015.