Ed Balls

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(politician)
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BornEdward Michael Balls
25 February 1967
Norwich, Norfolk, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materKeble College (Oxford), Harvard University
ReligionAnglicanism
Children3
SpouseYvette Cooper
Member ofFabian Society, WEF/Young Global Leaders/2005
PartyLabour Co-operative

Employment.png Shadow Home Secretary Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
8 October 2010 - 20 January 2011
Succeeded byYvette Cooper

Employment.png Shadow Secretary of State for Education Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
11 May 2010 - 8 October 2010
Succeeded byAndy Burnham

Employment.png Economic Secretary to the Treasury Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
6 May 2006 - 28 June 2007

Ed Balls is a British Labour Party and Co-operative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Morley and Outwood and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer until the May 2015 General Election when he was defeated by the Conservative candidate Andrea Jenkyns.[1][2]

Married to Blairite Labour MP Yvette Cooper, Ed Balls was initially rumoured to be seeking another seat that would enable him to return to Parliament. Later in 2015, he supported his wife's unsuccessful bid to become Leader of the Labour Party.[3]

In the 2016 leadership campaign, Ed Balls declared his support for former political lobbyist for Pfizer, Owen Smith, against the "leftist utopian fantasy" of Jeremy Corbyn.[4]

Tripping the "leftist utopian fantasy"

"More chance of being the next Prime Minister than he has of winning Strictly"

In September 2016, Ed Balls joined the new series of Strictly Come Dancing partnered with Russian professional dancer Katya Jones.[5] This prompted Tony Parsons in The Sun to wager:

"Ed Balls, 50 next birthday, has more chance of being the next Prime Minister than he has of winning Strictly.
"But I wish him well because Ed carries the hopes of all us dad dancers, all the half-cut geezers who ever took to a dance floor with wedding cake smeared down their shirt, all the disco dancing fools who ever practised Michael Jackson’s Moonwalk with just their bedroom mirror for a partner.
"We can dream of dancing on Strictly. And leave Ed to live the nightmare."[6]

In October 2016, Ed Balls had reportedly foxtrotted onto the short list of Labour candidates who were competing to stand at the 2016 Richmond Park by-election, caused by the resignation of Tory Zac Goldsmith.[7] On 5 November 2016 journalist, author, and railway historian Christian Wolmar was formally selected as the Labour candidate.[8]

Bilderberg

While he was chief economic adviser to the Treasury, Balls attended the Bilderberg annual conference of politicians, financiers and businessmen in 2001 and 2003, and returned to the United Kingdom on Conrad Black's private jet on both occasions. In 2010 after details were reported in the press, Balls commented:

"It saved the taxpayer the cost of a plane fare and on both occasions I declared it at the time to the permanent secretary in the normal way."[9][10]

Highballs

Ed Balls is currently a Senior Fellow at Harvard University Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, and a Visiting Professor to the Policy Institute at King's College London. He was appointed chairman of Norwich City F.C. in December 2015.[11]

 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/200124 May 200127 May 2001Sweden
Stenungsund
The 49th Bilderberg, in Sweden. Reported on the WWW.
Bilderberg/200230 May 20022 June 2002US
Virginia
Chantilly
Westfields Marriott
The 50th Bilderberg, held at Chantilly, Virginia.
Bilderberg/200315 May 200318 May 2003France
Versailles
The 51st Bilderberg, in Versailles, France
Bilderberg/20068 June 200611 June 2006Canada
Ottawa
54th Bilderberg, held in Canada. 133 guests
Bilderberg/20136 June 20139 June 2013Watford
UK
The 2013 Bilderberg group meeting.
Bilderberg/201429 May 20141 June 2014Denmark
Copenhagen
Marriott Hotel
The 62nd Bilderberg, with 136 guests, held in Copenhagen
Bilderberg/201511 June 201514 June 2015Austria
Telfs-Buchen
The 63rd meeting, 128 Bilderbergers met in Austria

 

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