Prime minister Gordon Brown has put John Denham MP in charge of the new department responsible for Innovations, Universities and Skills, with Ed Balls MP heading up the other new department for Children, Families and Schools.
John Denham, a former Home Office minister, left Tony Blair’s government in protest over Iraq. He was born in 1953 and educated at Woodroffe Comprehensive School, Lyme Regis and Southampton University, where he became president of the students union. He has been MP for Southampton Itchen since 1992.
Ed Balls was appointed Economic Secretary to the Treasury in May last year and was previously an economic adviser to Gordon Brown following Labour’s 1997 election victory. He joined the Commons in 2005, representing Normanton in West Yorkshire and is married to Yvette Cooper MP.
Thursday, 5 July 2007 at 9:57 pm |
So who’s in charge of FE now – Denham or Balls? Word on the street is it’s the LEAs?