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
Hey Yvette/The Grass Grows Green Hey Yvette/The Grass Grows Green "Hey Yvette/The Grass Grows Green" is a combination of two conjoined songs from the musical "Over Here!", which opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre (Broadway) on March 6, 1974. The song was written by Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman. It begins and ends with "Hey Yvette" with "The Grass Grows Green" sandwiched in the middle. The song is sung by "Spokesman", "Rankin" and "Father" who symbolically represent the veterans of the last war, in this case World War I. In the song they sing fondly about a "good time girl" named Yvette