Ed Balls
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The Right Honourable Ed Balls |
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| Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer | |
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In office 20 January 2011 – 8 May 2015 |
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| Leader | Ed Miliband |
| Shadowing | George Osborne |
| Preceded by | Alan Johnson |
| Succeeded by | Chris Leslie |
| Shadow Home Secretary | |
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In office 8 October 2010 – 20 January 2011 |
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| Leader | Ed Miliband |
| Shadowing | Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Alan Johnson |
| Succeeded by | Yvette Cooper |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Education | |
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In office 11 May 2010 – 8 October 2010 |
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| Leader |
Harriet Harman Ed Miliband |
| Shadowing | Michael Gove |
| Preceded by | Michael Gove |
| Succeeded by | Andy Burnham |
| Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families | |
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In office 28 June 2007 – 11 May 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Alan Johnson |
| Succeeded by | Michael Gove |
| Economic Secretary to the Treasury | |
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In office 6 May 2006 – 28 June 2007 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Chancellor | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Ivan Lewis |
| Succeeded by | Kitty Ussher |
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Member of Parliament for Morley and Outwood Normanton (2005–2010) |
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In office 5 May 2005 – 30 March 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Bill O'Brien |
| Succeeded by | Andrea Jenkyns |
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Edward Michael Balls 25 February 1967 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 |
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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