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Ed Balls [1967-0] British

Rank: 104
Politician, Former Economic Secretary to the Treasury

Edward Michael "Ed" Balls is a British Labour Party and Co-operative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Normanton from 2005 to 2010 and for Morley and Outwood from 2010 to 2015.

Politics

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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.		101
My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.		102
The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.	Politics	103
I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.		104
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.		105
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.		106
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.		107
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.		108
I would love to go on 'MasterChef'. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked.		109
For the first time I'm free to be myself.		110
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.		111
Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.		112
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.		113

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