Yvette Cooper is a British politician who serves as a Shadow Home Secretary since 2021 and previously from 2011 to 2015.
Cooper served as a Chief Secretary to the Treasury in the Cabinet of Gordon Brown from 2008 to 2009 and from 2009 to 2010, she served as work and pensions secretary. She is also a member of parliament for Normanton, Pontefract, and Castleford since 1997.
This British politician also represented the official opposition as Shadow Foreign Secretary and Shadow Home Secretary. Yvette then chaired the Labour Party’s Refugee Taskforce and is now a Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee.
Cooper also started a long campaign to solve the issues of extra help for working parents, tackling child poverty, promoting women’s rights, and family reunions for refugees.
Cooper became the chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee from 2016 to 2021 and as a backbencher, she repeatedly sought to extend Article 50 to delay Brexit.
Yvette, a member of the Labour party was reappointed on 29 November 2021 as a Shadow Home Secretary by Keir Starmer, replacing Nick Thomas Symonds in a Shadow Cabinet reshuffle.
Yvette Cooper’s Husband And Family
Yvette Cooper is married to former politician Ed Balls on 10 January 1998 with three children.
As Yvette was married to Ed Balls, they became the first couple to serve together in the cabinet when they got hitched. However, Balls moved on from politics and became a senior fellow at Harvard University Kennedy School but Yvette is still serving as an MP.
The couple Yvette Cooper and Ed Balls have been married for 20 years now with 3 children (2 daughters and one son). Two daughters are Ellie and Maddy and a son is named Joel.
The Cooper family is notoriously private and back in 2011, Ed controversially slated politicians as he believed paraded their children in the press and he said he would never use his children for a tactical advantage.
Net Worth of Yvette Cooper
Yvette Copper as a member of the Labour Party is considered one of the richest Politicians and listed as the most popular politician.
According to the sources, her net worth is calculated as approximately $1.5 Million and the primary source of her income is from politicians and economists. As a politician, she is rich as well as famous. Yvette and her family live in their own home which was bought in 2009.
Cooper started her career as an economic policy researcher for Shadow Chancellor John Smith and then worked in Arkansas for Bill Clinton who was a nominee of the Democratic Party for President of the US. After that, she became a policy advisor to Shadow Chief Secretary.
Alongside the political work, Yvette also released her two books and they are She Speaks: The Power of Women’s Voices which was released in 2020, and She Speaks: Women’s Speeches That Changed The World, from Pankhurst To Greta released in 2021.
Detail Biography of Yvette Cooper
Yvette Cooper is a recognized politician who was born on 20th March 1969 in Inverness, Scotland.
On the one hand, Yvette represented the Pontefract and Castleford and Normanton constituencies as a Member of Parliament and on the other hand, she also served as Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Chief Treasury Secretary and Secretary of state for work and pensions.
Cooper’s father is Tony Cooper who was a former General Secretary of Prospect trade union, a former non-executive director of Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, and former chairman of the British Nuclear Industry Forum whereas her mother was a maths teacher.
Yvette, a native of Inverness, was first raised in Holybourne, England and her marriage to fellow Labour Party Member of Parliament Ed Balls resulted in three children.
Cooper is a member of the British Labour Party who became a member of Parliament for Normanton, Pontefract, and Castleford in 2010. She is serving as the MP for Pontefract and Castleford since 1997.
Home Secretary statement on Rwanda is desperate, shameful attempt to distract from PM law breaking.
This policy is unworkable, unethical, at extortionate cost
And it will make people trafficking & smuggling worse /1 pic.twitter.com/BnLXyiouJq
— Yvette Cooper (@YvetteCooperMP) April 19, 2022
From 2010 to 2011, Yvette served as Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs for Ed Miliband. In November 2021 reshuffle, She became the Shadow Home Secretary again.