Ed Balls brutally told he’s ‘wasted’ at Good Morning Britain: ‘You should be back in the Commons where you belong’-Cydney Yeates-Entertainment – Metro

Good Morning Britain’s Ed Balls was told he is ‘wasted’ being on the ITV programme and should return to working in parliament.

Former politician Lord Jeffrey Archer was a guest on Tuesday’s episode and didn’t hold back his thoughts that the television presenter should be back working in the House of Commons.

Archer’s comments were triggered when Balls grilled him on Prime Minister Liz Truss’s differences with former Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher.

‘She was cutting public borrowing, she was making tough long-term decisions for the future of the country, it’s the opposite isn’t it?’ Balls pointed out.

‘Can you imagine Margaret Thatcher saying “I will pay for tax cuts by an increase in public borrowing”. Isn’t that the opposite of what she did?’

‘It is,’ Archer began, before quipping: ‘You know you’re wasted, Ed? You should be back in the House of Commons where you belong.’

Ed Balls was told he is ‘wasted’ on Good Morning Britain (Picture: Rex)

He continued: ‘You were Shadow Chancellor of course, and you’re frankly wasted waking me up at this time in the morning.

‘I agreed to come on and talk about my book, Next In Line, which has just been published, not chatter to you about why you’re not in parliament.’

Balls is a retired Labour MP who previously served as a member of parliament for Normanton from 2005 to 2010, and for Morley and Outwood from 2010 to 2015.

Former Labour leader Ed Miliband with Balls when he was Shadow Chancellor in 2015 (Picture: Getty)

He served as the Shadow Home Secretary from 2010 for one year under Ed Miliband’s cabinet, before taking on the role of Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, a position that he held until he was unseated at the 2015 general election.

Meanwhile, Archer was the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party between 1985–86, before resigning after a newspaper accused him of paying money to a sex worker.

In 1987, he won a court case and was awarded large damages because of this claim.

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Archer was made a life peer in 1992 and subsequently became Conservative candidate to be the first elected Mayor of London.

He resigned his candidacy in 1999 after it emerged that he had lied in his 1987 libel case and was imprisoned for two years in 200 for perjury and perverting the course of justice, ending his active political career.

Good Morning Britain airs weekdays at 6am on ITV.

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