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Ed Balls - Labour candidate for Normanton
Ed Balls is Labour's candidate to succeed Bill O'Brien MP. Ed has the local commitment and national experience to get the best deal for our district.
An active member of the TGWU, Unison and the Co-operative party, he comes from a Labour family. It was the welfare state, created by a Labour government in 1945, which enabled his father - from a widowed family in a working class community - to get a scholarship to University.
From 1997, he was proud to be in public service as Economic Adviser to Gordon Brown MP and Chief Economic Adviser to the Treasury. He has worked hard -nationally and locally - to make our economy stronger and fairer.
At the Treasury his job was to advise on government economic policy including Bank of England independence, the Windfall tax, the New Deal for jobs and the Winter Fuel Allowance. He is a member of the Northern Way and Wakefield Way economic taskforces. He has represented Britain round the world.
Ed is determined to fight to win more skilled jobs for our district. He wants to see more police on the beat and a fair deal for pensioners. Living locally, a dad with three kids, he knows we need more high-quality childcare which local families can afford – and that we badly need a modern hospital at Pinderfields.
Ed is married to Yvette Cooper, the MP for Pontefract and Castleford. They have three children – Ellie, Joe and Maddy - and live in Castleford.
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Wednesday 23 May 2012
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