Once word got out that legendary Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken liked to bust slumps by swatting balls off a batting tee as far as he could, for instance, every high-school team suddenly owned a tee.

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He attacked Labour leader Ed Miliband and shadow chancellor Ed Balls as the two politicians who "racked up the debts, saw the banks go bust and spent the money we didn't have".

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As MPs continued a Labour-led debate on the economy on 22 June 2011, one year on from the government's first Budget, Mr Javid said that shadow chancellor Ed Balls was in the Treasury "when the previous government announced that they had abolished boom and bust".

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