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,
Linda Cooper (politician) and a "judgmental little cock". A complaint was made with the Auckland Council, and Linda Cooper issued an apology and explained that her use of the word "cock" was to imply that the other user was being a "righteous rooster". She was re-elected to council at the 2016 Auckland elections, and also re-elected to the Waitakere Licensing Trust. In 2017, Cooper announced she would seek selection as the National Party's candidate for Helensville at the 2017 general election. Linda Cooper (politician) The New Zealand politician Linda Ann Cooper has served as a councillor on the Auckland Council since 2013. Cooper