Posts Tagged Ed Balls
Revolving door politics?
Posted by Stephen Clarke in Politics on 24/01/2011
Last Thursday Alan Johnson quit front-line politics, and with it his position as shadow chancellor of the exchequer. His replacement by Ed Balls was coupled with a major shadow cabinet reshuffle which saw Douglas Alexander becoming shadow foreign secretary, Liam Byrne becoming shadow work and pensions secretary, Tessa Jowell becoming the shadow Cabinet Office minister and Balls’ wife Yvette Cooper becoming shadow home secretary.
More of Balls’ Games?
Posted by Nick Cowen in Education, Family, Marriage and the Culture on 12/12/2007
Yesterday Ed Balls, the secretary of state for children, schools and families, unveiled the government’s plan to make Britain “the best place in the world for our children to grow up in” – writes Claire Daley and Nick Cowen.The so-called “Children’s plan” aims to tackle crucial education and social issues facing children today in the light of recent critical reports by Unicef, which have sparked concern over the state of British childhood.
The government has faced criticism for generating policy which “lacks vision”, so the question is, could the new proposals really revolutionise the British childhood (as Balls has pledged), or it is simply a new excuse to flood teachers’ desks with directives and undefined reviews?