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
John Kirwan (politician) 1930 and appointed K.C.M.G. in 1947. He was a member of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society, contributing numerous articles to "Early Days" and various international periodicals such as "The Times" and "The Review of Reviews". He also wrote an autobiography in 1936. In 1912, he married Teresa Gertrude Quinlan, the daughter of politician Timothy Quinlan, and they had three sons (a twin male having died at birth), two grandchildren (a boy and a girl) and three great grandchildren (a girl and two boys). He died in the Perth suburb of Subiaco in 1949. John Kirwan (politician) Sir John Waters