Yvette Cooper buyers will find average house prices are ten times their salary. That could lead to real social inequality and injustice. Every part of the country needs more affordable homes – in the North and the South, in urban and rural communities". In 2008, Cooper became the first woman to serve as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. As her husband, Ed Balls, was already a cabinet minister, her promotion meant that the two became the first married couple ever to sit in the cabinet together. In 2009, Cooper was appointed as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and took over
Linda Cooper (politician) Linda Cooper (politician) The New Zealand politician Linda Ann Cooper has served as a councillor on the Auckland Council since 2013. Cooper previously served on the Waitakere Community Board for 4 years and Waitakere City Council for 2 terms and has been an elected member on the Waitakere Licensing Trust2001, for 17 years and the current President for 8 years. At the 2010 Auckland elections, Cooper stood for the Citizens & Ratepayers local-body ticket in the Albany ward. She finished sixth in the ward, and was not elected to the new Auckland Council. At the 2011 general parliamentary election, Cooper