Ed Balls

Edward Michael Balls ( born February 25, 1967 in Norwich ) is a British Labour Party politician. In the Blair government he was Secretary of State at the British Treasury. From June 2007 to 2010 he was Minister of Education ( 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). Later he was known as a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University. While he was at Oxford, he was a member of the Oxford University Conservative Association.

He began his career in the Financial Times in the area of ​​economy 1990 until 1994. Subsequently, he was an economic adviser to the shadow chancellor Gordon Brown of 1994 until 1997. Balls In May 2006, Secretary of State at the British Treasury. The end of 2006 he was regarded as the most successful candidate for the post of finance in the UK by the planned resignation of Tony Blair. However, he was appointed in mid-2007 to the Minister of Education.

Since 1998, Ed Balls is the Labour MP for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley, Yvette Cooper ( born March 20, 1969) married. The couple has three children - Ellie, Joe and Maddy. The father of the ball is Michael Balls, a former European official and currently Chairman of the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments ( FRAME).

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