Yvette Cooper repay the money. After Labour were defeated at the 2010 general election, Cooper and her husband Ed Balls were both mentioned in the press as a potential leadership candidates when Gordon Brown resigned as Leader of the Labour Party. Before Balls announced his candidacy, he offered to stand aside if Cooper wanted to stand, but Cooper declined for the sake of their children, stating that it would not be the right time for her. She later topped the 2010 ballot for places in the Shadow Cabinet, and there was speculation that the newly elected Labour Leader Ed Miliband would appoint
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