Speaking Out

''Witty, reflective and engaging'' Nick Robinson

''Honest and revealing'' Michael Palin

''Fascinating, heartfelt'' Kay Burley

''Insightful, funny, unexpectedly moving'' Jonathan Freedland

On the night of 7 May 2015, Ed Balls thought there was a chance he would wake up the next morning as the new Chancellor of the Exchequer. Instead, he woke up without a job.

Twenty-one years earlier he had left a promi...