Gordon Brown sent Ed Balls an email “out of the blue” following his appearance on the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, the former shadow chancellor has said. Balls said the former prime minister had got in touch to say how much he was enjoying his appearance on the show. “Gordon sent me an email yesterday saying: ‘Congratulations on Strictly, the whole nation is enjoying every minute of it,’” Balls told the Radio Times. Balls also discussed how he managed to gash his head while visiting the Guardian to appear on a podcast. “If someone from the future said to me: ‘It’s 2025 and Ed Balls is prime minister,’ I would know what I already suspect – the dancefloor is about to turn his world around.

Source: The Guardian September 12, 2016 22:52 UTC