Exposed: Ed Balls the cheque bouncer! He wants to run Britain’s finances but just six months ago he couldn’t even write a £150 cheque to his glazier – twice

‘Ed Balls faced ridicule last night after two cheques he sent to a tradesman bounced – at a time when he is campaigning to be put in charge of the country’s finances.

The Shadow Chancellor sent the cheques to a glazier who had carried out work at the £1million London home he shares with his wife, Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper.

Incredibly, the bank refused to honour the £150 cheques and sent them back to the outraged tradesman, Brian Ford, stamped with the words ‘NO ACCOUNT’.

After the first cheque was refused, Mr Balls sent Mr Ford a hurriedly scribbled six-word apology on House of Commons notepaper with a second cheque. His note read: ‘Here it is – sorry about that’.
But the second cheque was also turned down by the bank. Both cheques, sent within 15 days of each other, were from a joint account, marked ‘Mr Edward M Balls and Ms Yvette Cooper’.’

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