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,
Melinda Cooper Melinda Cooper Melinda "La Maravilla" Cooper (born March 6, 1985 in Las Vegas, Nevada), was the WIBA and IBA Flyweight Champion of the world, and is recognized as one of the elite female professional boxers on the planet. Cooper started boxing in 1996, after meeting trainer James Pena at the Nevada Partners gym in Las Vegas. Pena recalls that at first he did not realize that Cooper was a girl, because she was with three boys and the hood of her coat was over her head. "There were a group of kids there, and I asked them all if they