Yvette Cooper
Politician
1969 –
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Who is Yvette Cooper?
Yvette Cooper is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford since 2010, having previously been MP for Pontefract and Castleford since 1997. She served in the Cabinet between 2008 and 2010 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and then as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. She is currently the Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities. She is married to fellow Labour politician Ed Balls.
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- Born
- Mar 20, 1969
Inverness - Spouses
- Ed Balls
(1998/01/10 - )
- Ed Balls
- Children
- Religion
- Christianity
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Balliol College
- Master of Science, London School of Economics
Economics - Harvard University
(1991 - ) - University of Oxford
- Alton College
- Eggar's School
- Lived in
- Alton
- Castleford
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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