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,
Walter Cooper (New South Wales politician) Walter Cooper (New South Wales politician) Walter Hampson Cooper (6 July 1842 – 26 July 1880) was an Australian politician. He was born at Liverpool to Joshua Cooper and Anne Jane Thompson. He worked as a journalist, first for the Queensland "Guardian" and then for the "Sydney Morning Herald" and the "Argus". In 1867 he married Ellen Elizabeth Kelly, with whom he had six children. In 1873 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for East Macquarie, but he was defeated in 1874. He was called to the bar in 1875 and continued to work as an