She retained the seat for Labour with a majority of 25,725 votes, and made her maiden speech in the Commons on 2 July 1997, speaking about her constituency's struggle with unemployment. Member of Parliament Ĭooper was selected to contest the safe Labour seat of Pontefract and Castleford at the 1997 general election, after Deputy Speaker Geoffrey Lofthouse announced his retirement. In 1995, she became the chief economics correspondent of The Independent, remaining with the newspaper until her election to the House of Commons in 1997. In 1994 she moved to become a research associate at the Centre for Economic Performance. Īt the age of 24, Cooper developed chronic fatigue syndrome, which took her a year to recover from. Later that year, she became a policy advisor to then Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Harriet Harman. Early career Ĭooper began her career as an economic policy researcher for Shadow Chancellor John Smith in 1990 before working in Arkansas for Bill Clinton, nominee of the Democratic Party for President of the United States, in 1992. She won a Kennedy Scholarship in 1991 to study at Harvard University, and she completed her postgraduate studies with an MSc in Economics at the London School of Economics. She read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford, and graduated with a first-class honours degree. She was educated at Eggar's School, a comprehensive school in Holybourne, and Alton College, both in Alton, Hampshire. He was also a government adviser on the Energy Advisory Panel.
Her father is Tony Cooper, former General Secretary of the Prospect trade union, a former non-executive director of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and a former Chairman of the British Nuclear Industry Forum. She became Shadow Home Secretary again in Keir Starmer’s November 2021 reshuffle.Ĭooper was born on 20 March 1969 in Inverness, Scotland. In October 2016, Cooper was elected chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee. Cooper subsequently resigned as Shadow Home Secretary in September 2015. Cooper came third with 17.0% of the vote in the first round, losing to Jeremy Corbyn. On, Cooper announced she would run to be Leader of the Labour Party in the leadership election following the resignation of Miliband. In 2011, her husband Ed Balls was promoted to Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Cooper replaced Balls as Shadow Home Secretary and served until Labour lost the 2015 general election. After Labour lost the 2010 general election, Cooper served in Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2010 to 2011.
She served in the Cabinet between 20 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and then as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. She was Minister of State for Housing and Planning under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. A member of the Labour Party, she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford, previously Pontefract and Castleford, since 1997.Ĭooper served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in the Cabinet under Prime Minister Gordon Brown from 2008 to 2010 and as Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2010 to 2011. Yvette Cooper (born 20 March 1969) is a British politician serving as Shadow Home Secretary since November 2021, and previously from 2011 to 2015.
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