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The former shadow chancellor Ed Balls has reinvented himself on many levels since losing his parliamentary seat, perhaps most surprisingly as a cookery writer.
It should stand him in good stead for his latest venture, after he was announced as the new chairman of Norwich City, where he will share an executive box with the cookery writer Delia Smith.
Balls, 48, who was born in Norwich and is a lifelong Canaries fan, is to take up the unpaid, non-executive role with immediate effect, joining fellow directors at Carrow Road for Monday’s match against Aston Villa.
For the erstwhile parliamentarian, who has had more time on his hands since losing his Morley and Outwood seat at the general election in May, it is an opportunity to indulge a passion for the club he has harboured since he was a small boy.
The former financial journalist is currently a senior fellow at Harvard University Kennedy School and a visiting professor at King’s College London. A budding pianist – he took his grade 4 exam last year - Balls recently started working as a cookery writer for the rightwing Spectator magazine.
His debut column, on how to perfect a crab and Gruyère souffle Christmas starter, should stand him in good stead with Smith, a Norwich City shareholder with whom he will be able to swap recipes and garner tips.
In a statement, Balls said: “It’s an honour and a privilege to be asked to join the board of directors at Norwich City as chairman.
“From the moment my dad first took me to watch City from the terrace at Carrow Road in 1973, my earliest ambition was to play for the club I loved. But the next best thing is to become chairman of Norwich City and do what I can off the pitch to help City succeed on the pitch.
“The club’s immediate priority and focus is, of course, the retention of our hard-earned Premier League status, and the hard work of my fellow directors and all of my colleagues at the club means Norwich City is in great shape on and off the pitch going into 2016.
“With that foundation, the challenge for all of us at Norwich is to go from the up-and-down fortunes I have known since I was a boy to an era of sustained success, and I will be proud to play my part in that.”
The former shadow chancellor Ed Balls has reinvented himself on many levels since losing his parliamentary seat, perhaps most surprisingly as a cookery writer.
It should stand him in good stead for his latest venture, after he was announced as the new chairman of Norwich City, where he will share an executive box with the cookery writer Delia Smith.
Balls, 48, who was born in Norwich and is a lifelong Canaries fan, is to take up the unpaid, non-executive role with immediate effect, joining fellow directors at Carrow Road for Monday’s match against Aston Villa.
For the erstwhile parliamentarian, who has had more time on his hands since losing his Morley and Outwood seat at the general election in May, it is an opportunity to indulge a passion for the club he has harboured since he was a small boy.
The former financial journalist is currently a senior fellow at Harvard University Kennedy School and a visiting professor at King’s College London. A budding pianist – he took his grade 4 exam last year - Balls recently started working as a cookery writer for the rightwing Spectator magazine.
His debut column, on how to perfect a crab and Gruyère souffle Christmas starter, should stand him in good stead with Smith, a Norwich City shareholder with whom he will be able to swap recipes and garner tips.
In a statement, Balls said: “It’s an honour and a privilege to be asked to join the board of directors at Norwich City as chairman.
“From the moment my dad first took me to watch City from the terrace at Carrow Road in 1973, my earliest ambition was to play for the club I loved. But the next best thing is to become chairman of Norwich City and do what I can off the pitch to help City succeed on the pitch.
“The club’s immediate priority and focus is, of course, the retention of our hard-earned Premier League status, and the hard work of my fellow directors and all of my colleagues at the club means Norwich City is in great shape on and off the pitch going into 2016.
“With that foundation, the challenge for all of us at Norwich is to go from the up-and-down fortunes I have known since I was a boy to an era of sustained success, and I will be proud to play my part in that.”
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