This is Ed Balls speaking at the Labour Party conference, laying out what his party would do if it was elected next year.
1. But already, on day two, we've learned a lot about Balls. Many of his colleagues call him a political bruiser. But he's also a bit of bruiser on the football pitch.
2. And just as Ed Miliband managed to ignore a question thirteen times on Sunday, Balls has been doing a pretty good job on not giving his view on whether it's fair that Scottish MPs can vote on English laws.
'The things I announced in my speech I announced,' says Ed Balls. 'The things I didn't announce, I will in a different speech.' #hpconvo
3. Turns out he's pretty good at being vague generally.
Balls: 'We will do whatever it takes to protect NHS spending'. @mehdirhasan: 'What does that mean?' EB:'Whatever it takes'. #hpconvo #Lab14
4. And it's kind of awkward but when people were asked to give words they associate with the man who wants to be the next chancellor of the exchequer, this is what they came up with.
And that's compared with words associated with George Osborne, the man currently in the job, which are generally pretty nice.
5. Oh, and he's learning how to play the piano. He's on Grade 4 right now.
Ed balls says he's trying to learn improvisation. On the piano, that is. #Lab14
Although he actually missed his grade 3 exam to respond to a budget statement.
6. And he played this, by Schumann, at the Guardian's HQ in King's Place.
7. Meanwhile two years ago it was reported that Balls and his wife Yvette Cooper hadn't gone out on a date in ten years. They still haven't, with him adding: "Do people with kids ever go on dates?"
Balls admits he hasn't taken his wife out on a date night for 12 years. #hpconvo #Lab14
8. Although he did go interrailing with Cooper and went on a Sound of Music tour with his wife earlier this summer. And wore curtains.
Balls reveals yvette and he made clothes out of curtains on their sound of music tour in Austria this summer. Including kerchiefs.
He said he learned that interrailing is not just for smelly twentysomethings.
9. And despite carrying around that bruiser title, it turns out he's a bit sappy. Aww.
Do you go on dates, @mehdirhasan asks. Ed Balls: "If Yvette and I have a night off, we'd rather spend it with our kids." Aww #HuffPoConvo