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,
Nathan Cooper (Canadian politician) Nathan Cooper (Canadian politician) Nathan Matthew Cooper (born 1980) is a Canadian politician who was elected in the 2015 Alberta General Election to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the electoral district of Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills. Cooper was a municipal councillor in Carstairs, Alberta prior to being elected to the Legislative Assembly. Cooper also served as Chief of Staff to the Wildrose Official Opposition caucus. On July 24, 2017 Cooper was elected interim leader of the new United Conservative Party caucus, becoming the Leader of the Opposition in that process. On 28 October 2017, Cooper's tenure as UCP interim leader ended