Yvette Cooper than fellow candidates Caroline Flint, Chuka Umunna and Paul Flynn. As chair, Cooper launched a national inquiry into public views on immigration, and after an emergency inquiry into the Dubs scheme for child refugees, criticised the government's decision to end the programme in February 2017. Cooper married Ed Balls on 10 January 1998 in Eastbourne. Her husband was the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and a candidate in the 2010 Labour Party leadership election. The couple have two daughters and one son. Cooper and Balls were the first married couple to serve together in the British cabinet. In February 2013,
Boys and Girls (1983 film) Boys and Girls (1983 film) Boys and Girls is a 1983 Canadian short film directed by Don McBrearty. The film won an Academy Award in 1984 for Best Short Subject. "Boys and Girls" is based on Alice Munro's short story of the same name, written in 1968. It is a coming of age story about a girl growing up on a farm having to accept that in her lifetime she will always be considered "only a girl". In this film, it emphasizes the almost invisible social forces shaping children. In this case, the girl and her brother Laird become gendered