Yvette Cooper

Biography

Yvette Cooper was elected MP for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford in May 2010 with a majority of 10,979 votes.

She have been a member of the Labour Party since she was a teenager and has been MP for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley since 1997.

As well as being a constituency MP, she is also currently shadow home secretary. She had served as work and pensions secretary during the final years of the New Labour government.

Birthplace

Inverness, Scotland, 1969, to Tony Cooper (trade unionist) and June Cooper (Maths teacher).

Education

Eggars Comprehensive, Alton, Hampshire, Alton Sixth Form College, Oxford University, Harvard University, London School of Economics.

Employment

Economic Researcher for late John Smith, Policy Advisor to Bill Clinton Presidential Campaign, Policy Adviser to Labour Treasury Team on public spending, Economic columnist and leader writer, The Independent newspaper.

Political

January 2008 | Chief Secretary to the Treasury (www.hm-treasury.gov.uk)

June 2007 | Minister for Housing, attending Cabinet

2005 | Minister of State (Minister for Housing and Planning), Department for Communities and Local Government (formerly the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister).

June 2003 | appointed Parliamentary Secretary in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

May 29 2002 | appointed Parliamentary Secretary at the Lord Chancellor's Department.

October 1999 | appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health.

May 1997 | elected Labour Member of Parliament for Pontefract and Castleford.

Previously | member, Education and Employment Select Committee; member of Employment Sub-Committee; member, Intelligence and Security Committee; All-party Coalfield Communities Group.

Special Political Interest

Unemployment, energy (coal industry), child poverty.

Personal:

She is married to Ed Balls and they have two daughters and one son.

Constituency

Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford

Twitter

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Constituency Address

1 York Street Castleford West Yorkshire WF10 1JS

Constituency Tel

01977 553388

Date of Birth

20 March 1969

Email

Party

Labour

Personal Website

http://www.yvettecooper.com/

Westminster Address

Westminster Tel

020 7219 5080

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Yvette Cooper, shadow home secretary

Yvette Cooper's immigration speech in full

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Yvette Cooper speech in full

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Read the full speech by Yvette Cooper, shadow home secretary, to the Labour party conference.

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Yvette Cooper: I won't let Tories privatise the police

Cooper, shadow home secretary, pledges no privatisation of the police

Labour police commissioners will prevent any efforts to privatise local police forces, Yvette Cooper promised today.

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Political world pays tribute to fallen police

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Political figures have paid tribute to two policewomen who were shot and killed during a routine call in Manchester today.

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Police cuts force bobbies off the beat in South Yorkshire

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May was criticised for failing to mention key passages of the report.

Theresa May split the UK Border Agency in half today, in a bid to kill the controversy around reduced immigration checks.

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Yvette Cooper: Women forced back into the kitchen

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