Ed Balls
Politician
1967 –
Who is Ed Balls?
Edward Michael "Ed" Balls is a British Labour Party and Co-operative Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Morley and Outwood since 2010, and is the current Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. From 2005 to 2010, he was the MP for Normanton and he served as Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families under Gordon Brown from 2007 to 2010. Balls is married to current Shadow Home Secretary and fellow Labour MP Yvette Cooper. In June 2007 they became the first married couple to serve together in a British Cabinet when Cooper became Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
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- Born
- Feb 25, 1967
Norwich - Parents
- Spouses
- Yvette Cooper
(1998/01/10 - )
- Yvette Cooper
- Children
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- England
- Profession
- Education
- Keble College, Oxford
Philosophy, Politics and Economics - Harvard University
Economics - Nottingham High School
- University of Oxford
- Keble College, Oxford
- Lived in
- Castleford
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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