Beans Balls

Beans Balls is a British Labour Party politician who is currently chair of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee, shadow business, energy and industrial strategy secretary and MP for Grimsby, Scunthorpe and Lincolnshire North. He served as Labour leader from September 2015 until January 2019 and as Prime Minister from December 2017 until January 2019. Ideologically, he identifies as a democratic socialist.

Elected to the House of Commons in the 2015 general election as the Member of Parliament for Cambridge, Balls was appointed to various Shadow Cabinet posts, including shadow foreign secretary, shadow infrastructure secretary and shadow leader of the house of commons. After Theresa May stepped down as Labour leader following the Labour Party's defeat in the 2015 General Election, Balls stood in the leadership contest and won. He later resigned as PM and Labour leader in January 2019 and called a snap election after his government's budget was rejected by the House of Commons and the opposition tabled a vote of no confidence in his government.