Ed Balls Quotes

• I’m a very loyal person and I allowed myself to be defined as somebody who was doing Gordon’s bidding. I should have fought back harder to define myself at an earlier stage.

  Ed Balls

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Gordon, Loyal, Define

• I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they’d say that much less now.

  Ed Balls

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ago, Stammer, Weakness

• We have come to the edge of the abyss and now it is time for a bold step forward. There is a political view that the tougher you are, the more credible you are.

  Ed Balls

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  Tags in Bold, Edge, Forward

• You could get a cheer by saying: ‘Let’s withdraw from Afghanistan’, but I don’t think that’s where the public’s at. It wouldn’t be responsible.

  Ed Balls

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Responsible, Cheer, Saying

• It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn’t have prosecuted the war. We shouldn’t have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.

  Ed Balls

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Error, Heavy

• In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.

  Ed Balls

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Economist, Consensus, Gold, Party

• I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that’s going to take me a year.

  Ed Balls

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Year

• Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

  Ed Balls

• My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.

  Ed Balls

  Tags in Battery

• For the first time I’m free to be myself.

  Ed Balls

Ed Balls (10)

Birth:	25th February, 1967
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Politician

About

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.

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