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,
Yvette Tollar Yvette Tollar Yvette Tollar is a Canadian jazz vocalist born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She has released two full-length CDs, "Cactus Flowers" (2001) and "Ima" (2008). "Ima" was a nominee for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year at the 2009 Juno Awards. Yvette Tollar comes from a musical family. Her brother is Ernie Tollar. He is a saxophone and woodwind player who has played with jazz vocalist Holly Cole and big band NOJO. Yvette is married to electric bassist Rich Brown. Yvette studied jazz music with vocalist Sheila Jordan in New York and with Joe Lovano, Dave Holland, and Kenny