Which Labour Party shadow cabinet member is married to fellow MP Ed Balls?
Ed Balls over allegations that they were claiming expenses for what was effectively their main home in London; their combined claim was £24,000 i.e. "slightly more" than the single MP allowance. The commissioner exonerated them, adding that their motives were not for profit as they paid full capital gains tax. He married Labour MP Yvette Cooper, who later became Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Shadow Home Secretary, in Eastbourne on 10 January 1998. Cooper is Member of Parliament for Morley & Outwood's neighbouring constituency of Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford. They have three children, all of whom are entitled to
Ed Balls Ed Balls Edward Michael Balls (born 25 February 1967) is a retired British Labour and Co-operative politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton from 2005 to 2010, and for Morley and Outwood from 2010 to 2015. Balls attended Nottingham High School before studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Keble College, Oxford and was later a Kennedy Scholar in Economics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He was a teaching fellow at Harvard from 1988 to 1990, when he joined the "Financial Times" as the lead economic writer. Balls had joined the Labour Party