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 Chassagne 2001. She married Jean Chassagne; the couple had two children but later divorced. She was named a Commander in the French Legion of Honor, a Grand Officer in the National Order of Merit and a Grand Officer in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. Chassagne was named to the national orders of a number of African countries including the Ivory Coast, Senegal, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, Mali and Niger, also becoming a Commander in the Order of the Equatorial Star of Gabon. She died in Narbonne at the age of 85. Yvette Chassagne Yvette Madeleine Chassagne (