Yvette Cooper repay the money. After Labour were defeated at the 2010 general election, Cooper and her husband Ed Balls were both mentioned in the press as a potential leadership candidates when Gordon Brown resigned as Leader of the Labour Party. Before Balls announced his candidacy, he offered to stand aside if Cooper wanted to stand, but Cooper declined for the sake of their children, stating that it would not be the right time for her. She later topped the 2010 ballot for places in the Shadow Cabinet, and there was speculation that the newly elected Labour Leader Ed Miliband would appoint
Walter Cooper (New South Wales politician) electoral organiser for Henry Parkes. Cooper died in 1880. 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