Ed Balls

**Edward Michael "Ed" Balls** (born 25 February 1967) is a British current television presenter and a former politician who is currently presenter for the ITV breakfast show ***Good Morning Britain***.  He was the shadow Home Secretary in Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet. He was born in Norwich, Norfolk and moved to Nottinghamshire during his childhood. He is the Labour Party and was theCo-operative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Morley and Outwood in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.

He was first elected in the 2005 general election and held the post of Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families from June 2007 to May 2010. He was a candidate to become leader of the Labour Party in September 2010 and lost to Ed Miliband. Ed Balls lost his seat in the 2015 general election

## Infobox (politician)

- **honorific-prefix**: <small>The Right Honourable</small>
- **name**: Ed Balls
- **honorific-suffix**: Member of Parliament, MP
- **image**: Ed Balls 2.jpg
- **office2**: Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
- **leader2**: Ed Miliband
- **term start2**: 20 January 2011
- **term end2**: 8 May 2015
- **predecessor2**: Alan Johnson
- **office3**: Shadow Home Secretary
- **leader3**: Ed Miliband
- **term start3**: 8 October 2010
- **term end3**: 20 January 2011
- **predecessor3**: Alan Johnson
- **successor3**: Yvette Cooper
- **office4**: Shadow Secretary of State for Education
- **leader4**: Harriet Harman
Ed Miliband
- **term start4**: 11 May 2010
- **term end4**: 8 October 2010
- **predecessor4**: Michael Gove <small>(Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, CSF)</small>
- **successor4**: Andy Burnham
- **office5**: Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, Secretary of State for Children,
 Schools and Families
- **primeminister5**: Gordon Brown
- **term start5**: 28 June 2007
- **term end5**: 11 May 2010
- **predecessor5**: Alan Johnson <small>(Secretary of State for Education and Skills, EaS)</small>
- **successor5**: Michael Gove <small>(Secretary of State for Education, E)</small>
- **office6**: Economic Secretary to the Treasury
- **primeminister6**: Tony Blair
- **term start6**: 6 May 2006
- **term end6**: 28 June 2007
- **predecessor6**: Ivan Lewis
- **successor6**: Kitty Ussher
- **office7**: Member of Parliament (UK), Member of Parliament
 for Morley and Outwood (UK Parliament constituency), Morley and Outwood
- **term start7**: 6 May 2010
- **term end7**: 8 May 2015
- **predecessor7**: Boundary Commissions (United Kingdom), Constituency Created
- **majority7**: 1,101 (2.3%)
- **office8**: Member of Parliament (UK), Member of Parliament
 for Normanton (UK Parliament constituency), Normanton
- **term start8**: 5 May 2005
- **term end8**: 6 May 2010
- **majority8**: 10,002 (51.2%)
- **predecessor8**: Bill O'Brien (British politician), Bill O'Brien
- **successor8**: Boundary Commissions (United Kingdom), Constituency Abolished
- **birth place**: Norwich, Norfolk, England
- **profession**: Politician
- **spouse**: Yvette Cooper
- **party**: Labour Co-operative
- **children**: Ellie
Joe
Maddy
- **alma mater**: Keble College, Oxford
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Harvard University
- **website**: [http://www.edballs.co.uk/ Official website]