article_snippet: Shadow chancellor   wants to become Chancellor of the Exchequer.
article_snippet: ’ Chancellor of the Exchequer added:
article_snippet: After working as an adviser to Gordon Brown at the Treasury, Ed Balls  was elected as an MP in 2005 and became shadow chancellor in 2011.
article_snippet: Ed Balls  previously worked at the Financial Times and taught economics at Harvard University.
article_snippet: has been very severe,Ed Balls  Ed Balls  later told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
highlights_snippet: Ed Balls made the embarrassing admission on Good Morning Britain .
  