Yvette Cooper buyers will find average house prices are ten times their salary. That could lead to real social inequality and injustice. Every part of the country needs more affordable homes – in the North and the South, in urban and rural communities". In 2008, Cooper became the first woman to serve as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. As her husband, Ed Balls, was already a cabinet minister, her promotion meant that the two became the first married couple ever to sit in the cabinet together. In 2009, Cooper was appointed as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and took over
The Girl I Married The Girl I Married "The Girl I Married" is the second segment of the thirty-fifth episode and the twentieth episode of the second season (1986–87) of the television series "The Twilight Zone". Two middle-aged gentlemen enter a restaurant and are seated. As they look over their menus, one of the men, a man named Marvin, apprehensively shows a picture of a young woman to the other man named Ira, who smiles. Marvin suddenly begins to wonder if Ira and his wife are having problems, because he has been seen mooning over this picture. Ira laughs it off, takes the picture