Ed Balls

The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.

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.

Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.