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Ed Balls: "His surname has just gone from head, which is a bit annoying"
Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls has said "it's an age thing" after failing to remember the name of one of Labour's main business supporters.
In an interview with BBC Newsnight, he described Bill Thomas - who helped draw up the party's small business policies - as simply "Bill" and when pressed could not give his surname.
Labour sources called it "a human error" and a "perfectly human slip up".
Mr Balls tweeted on Tuesday: "It's an age thing!"
In the Newsnight interview, Mr Balls was being quizzed about whether Labour was anti-business, following criticism by Boots boss Stefano Pessina.
The shadow chancellor said he had just been at a dinner with some of Labour's business supporters including "Bill, the former chief executive of EDS, whom I was talking to just a few moments ago ... he is a big supporter of ours."
When presenter Emily Maitlis asked what Bill's surname was, he said: "It has just gone from my head, which is a bit annoying at this time of night…"
The Shadow Chancellor later tweeted an explanation for his memory lapse: "I know, I know. Bill Thomas, our Small Business Taskforce Chair, will never forgive me. It's an age thing!"
Mr Thomas, a former senior vice president of Electronic Data Systems, part of Hewlett Packard Europe, chaired a small business taskforce for Labour, as part of its policy review.
Labour leader Ed Miliband hailed the "enormous commitment and imagination" Mr Thomas had brought to the job when the taskforce's report was published in 2013.
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