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Edward Michael "Ed" Balls, PC (born 25 February 1967) is a former British Labour Party and Co-operative Party politician, formerly Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton from 2005 to 2010 and for Morley and Outwood from 2010 to 2015. Balls served as Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families in Gordon Brown's Government from 2007 to 2010. He was the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time of his electoral defeat, which was described by Larry Elliott of ''The Guardian'' as the Portillo moment of the election. Balls is married to former Shadow Home Secretary and Labour MP Yvette Cooper. In June 2007 they became the first married couple to serve together in HM Cabinet when Cooper became Chief Secretary to the Treasury. ==Early life== Balls's father is the zoologist Professor Michael Balls CBE; his mother is Carolyn Janet Balls (''née'' Riseborough).〔''Who's Who'', published by A & C Black, (2001 edition) ISBN 0713654325〕 His younger brother is Andrew Balls, the head of European Operations at the bond and investment firm PIMCO. Balls was born in Norwich and educated at Bawburgh Primary School in Norwich, Crossdale Drive Primary School in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, and then the private all-boys Nottingham High School, where he played the violin. He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Keble College, Oxford, graduating with a First — according to John Rentoul in ''The Independent'' — ahead of David Cameron.〔 Later he attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, where he was a Kennedy Scholar specialising in Economics. Balls joined the Labour Party in 1983 while still at school.〔 While at Oxford 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 all-male drinking club, ''The Steamers'', and suffered embarrassment when a contemporary photo of him wearing Nazi uniform appeared in the papers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ed Balls」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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