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
Yvette Chassagne 2001. She married Jean Chassagne; the couple had two children but later divorced. She was named a Commander in the French Legion of Honor, a Grand Officer in the National Order of Merit and a Grand Officer in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. Chassagne was named to the national orders of a number of African countries including the Ivory Coast, Senegal, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, Mali and Niger, also becoming a Commander in the Order of the Equatorial Star of Gabon. She died in Narbonne at the age of 85. Yvette Chassagne Yvette Madeleine Chassagne (