Ed Balls
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 Ed Balls facts

• 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
• At the 2005 general election, Balls was elected as the MP for Normanton (which in 2010 became Morley and Outwood), and in 2006 became Economic Secretary to the Treasury
• When Brown became Prime Minister in 2007, Balls became Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, serving until the 2010 general election, in which Labour became the opposition party
• He was appointed as Shadow Secretary of State for Education under Harriet Harman and came third in the 2010 Labour leadership election, triggered by Brown's resignation as party leader, after which he was appointed as Ed Miliband's Shadow Home Secretary
• He served in this role until 2011, when he was then appointed as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, a role which he held until his defeat as an MP in the 2015 general election
• Larry Elliott of The Guardian described this as the Portillo moment of the election