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,
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