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Former Labour Cabinet Minister - Ed Balls

Former Labour Cabinet Minister - Ed Balls

The Interview vor 10 Jahren

How does a political heavyweight make sense of failure?

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HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to Ed Balls, former Labour MP
and UK cabinet minister. When elected politicians are booted out
by the voters there's no safety net to soften their fall. And Ed
Balls has the bruises to prove it. He was one of the key players
of the UK Labour Party's era of political dominance under those
partners and rivals Blair and Brown. He was a formidable
political operator whose ambition was to lead his party. He
failed in that, and last year lost his seat as the unravelling of
the Labour Party began in earnest. How does a political
heavyweight make sense of failure?