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) 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