Ed Balls

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ed Balls
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Feb 25, 1967(1967-02-25)
Age	57
Birthplace	England
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Pisces

Ed Balls Biography

Ed Balls is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on February 25, 1967 in England, England, United Kingdom. Member of England’s Parliament who took office as the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in 2011. He was previously the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families from 2007 to 2010.

He served as Secretary of State for Children under Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Balls joined the Labour Party in 1983 while still at school. While at Oxford University he was a partially active member of the Labour Club, but also signed up to the Liberal Club as well as the Conservative Association, “because they used to book top-flight political speakers, and only members were allowed to attend their lectures” according to friends. Balls was a founding member of The Steamers, an all-male drinking club, and suffered embarrassment when a contemporary photo of him wearing Nazi uniform appeared in the papers.

Between 1988 and 1990, Balls was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University. He joined the Financial Times in 1990 as a lead economic writer until his appointment as an economic adviser to Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown in 1994. When Labour regained power at the 1997 general election, Brown became Chancellor and Balls continued to work as his economic adviser, eventually becoming Chief Economic Advisor to the Treasury.

He has three children, Ellie, Joe, and Maddy, with wife and politician Yvette Cooper.

Ed Balls Net Worth

Ed Balls is one of the richest Politician from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ed Balls 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a member of the Labour Club and Conservative Association at Oxford University.

He and his wife were the first married couple to both be members of the British Cabinet at the same time.

Edward Michael Balls (born 25 February 1967) is a retired British Labour and Co-operative politician who was the member of parliament (MP) for Normanton from 2005 to 2010, and for Morley and Outwood from 2010 to 2015.

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Who is Ed Balls Dating?

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In the 2005 general election, he was elected MP for Normanton with a majority of 10,002 and 51.2% of the vote. After the Boundary Commission proposed changes which would abolish his constituency, Balls ran a campaign, in connection with the local newspaper the Wakefield Express, to save the seat and, together with the three other Wakefield MPs (his wife Yvette Cooper, Mary Creagh and Jon Trickett), fought an unsuccessful High Court legal action against the Boundary Commission’s proposals.

Facts & Trivia

Ed Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Ed Balls celebrates birthday on February 25 of every year.

Balls has been a central figure in New Labour’s economic reform agenda. He and Gordon Brown have differed from the Blairites in being keen to stress their roots in Labour Party intellectual traditions such as Fabianism and the co- operative movement, as well as their modernising credentials in policy and electoral terms. In a New Statesman interview in March 2006, Martin Bright writes that Balls “says the use of the term ‘socialist’ is less of a problem for his generation than it has been for older politicians like Blair and Brown, who remain bruised by the ideological warfare of the 1970s and 1980s”. In the interview, Balls said:

Top Facts about Ed Balls

1. Ed Balls is a British politician and broadcaster born in 1967.
2. He served as the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2011-2015.
3. Balls was a Member of Parliament for Morley and Outwood from 2005-2015.
4. He competed on the UK’s Strictly Come Dancing in 2016.
5. Balls has written several books, including one about economics.
6. He studied at Oxford University and Harvard University.
7. In 2020, he became the chair of Norwich City Football Club.
8. Balls is married to fellow Labour Party politician Yvette Cooper.
9. He has been involved in various charitable organizations throughout his career.
10. Balls is known for his distinctive name and humorous social media presence.

What does Ed Balls do for a living?

Politician

Who is Ed Balls brother?

Andrew Balls

What age is Ed Balls?

55 years (February 25, 1967)

Who is Ed Ball's wife?

Yvette Cooper

What political party is Ed Balls?

Labour Party