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The Right Honourable
Yvette Cooper
MP
Official portrait, 2024
Home Secretary
Incumbent
Assumed office
5 July 2024
Prime MinisterKeir Starmer
Preceded byJames Cleverly
Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee
In office
19 October 2016 – 1 December 2021
Preceded byKeith Vaz
Succeeded byDiana Johnson
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
In office
5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Prime MinisterGordon Brown
Preceded byJames Purnell
Succeeded byIain Duncan Smith
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In office
24 January 2008 – 5 June 2009
Prime MinisterGordon Brown
Preceded byAndy Burnham
Succeeded byLiam Byrne
Junior ministerial offices
Minister of State
2005–2008Housing and Planning
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
2003–2005Regeneration and Regional Development
2002–2003Lord Chancellor's Department
1999–2002Public Health
Shadow cabinet portfolios
2021–2024Home Secretary
2011–2015Home Secretary
2010–2013Women and Equalities
2010–2011Foreign Secretary
2010–2010Work and Pensions
Member of Parliament
for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley
Normanton, Pontefract
and Castleford (2010–2024)
Pontefract and Castleford (1997–2010)
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 May 1997
Preceded byGeoffrey Lofthouse
Majority6,630 (18.4%)
Personal details
Born (1969-03-20) 20 March 1969 (age 55)
Inverness, Scotland
Political partyLabour
Spouse
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(m. 1998)​
Children3
ParentTony Cooper (father)
Education
Signature
WebsiteOfficial website
Yvette Cooper's voice
Cooper delivering an Amnesty International lecture on the refugee crisis in 2016

Yvette Cooper (born 20 March 1969) is a British politician who has served as Home Secretary since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party, Cooper has been member of parliament (MP) for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley, previously Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford, since 1997.

First elected to Parliament at the 1997 general election, Cooper was a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in three departments under Prime Minister Tony Blair from 1999 to 2005. She was promoted to Minister of State for Housing and Planning in 2005, and was retained in the role when Gordon Brown was appointed prime minister in 2007. In 2008, she joined Brown's Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, before being promoted to Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in 2009. After Labour's defeat at the 2010 general election, Cooper served in Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet as shadow foreign secretary from 2010 to 2011. 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.

On 13 May 2015, Cooper announced she would run to be Leader of the Labour Party in the leadership election following the resignation of Miliband.[1] Cooper came third with 17.0% of the vote in the first round, losing to Jeremy Corbyn.[2] Cooper subsequently resigned as shadow home secretary in September 2015. Cooper was the chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee from 2016 to 2021.[3] As a backbencher, Cooper repeatedly sought to extend Article 50 to delay Brexit. She became shadow home secretary again in Starmer's shadow cabinet in November 2021.

Following Labour's victory in the 2024 general election, Cooper returned to government and was appointed home secretary by Prime Minister Keir Starmer in his ministry. She faced her first major domestic event, the riots across the country following the Southport stabbing, three weeks into her tenure.

Early life and education

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Yvette Cooper was born on 20 March 1969 in Inverness, Scotland. 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.[4] He was also a government adviser on the Energy Advisory Panel.[5] Her mother, June, was a maths teacher.[6]

She was educated at Eggar's School, a comprehensive school in Holybourne, and Alton College, both in Alton, Hampshire. She read philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) at Balliol College, Oxford, and graduated with a first-class honours degree.[7] She won a Kennedy Scholarship in 1991 to study at Harvard University, and completed her postgraduate studies with an MSc in economics at the London School of Economics.[8]

Early career

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Cooper 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. Later that year, she became a policy advisor to then Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Harriet Harman.[7]

At the age of 24, Cooper developed chronic fatigue syndrome, from which she took a year to recover.[6] In 1994 she moved to become a research associate at the Centre for Economic Performance. 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.[7]

Parliamentary career

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Cooper was selected as the Labour candidate to contest Pontefract and Castleford at the 1997 general election. She was elected as MP for Pontefract and Castleford with 75.7% of the vote and a majority of 25,725.[9] Cooper made her maiden speech in the Commons on 2 July 1997, speaking about her constituency's struggle with unemployment.[10] She served for two years on the Education and Employment Select Committee.

Blair and Brown government: 1999–2010

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In 1999, she was promoted as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Health. As a health minister, Cooper helped implement the Sure Start programme.[11] In this post, she was also the first British government minister in history to take maternity leave.[12]

At the 2001 general election, Cooper was re-elected as MP for Pontefract and Castleford with a decreased vote share of 69.7% and a decreased majority of 16,378.[13]

In 2003, she became Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Regeneration in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister with the responsibility of coalfield regeneration.[14] Following the 2005 general election she was promoted to Minister, as Minister of State for Housing and Planning based in the Department for Communities and Local Government from 2006.[15]

Cooper was again re-elected at the 2005 general election with a decreased vote share of 63.7% and a decreased majority of 15,246.[16]

After Gordon Brown became prime minister, Cooper was invited to attend cabinet meetings as Housing Minister. Shortly after taking the job, she was required to introduce the Home Information Pack (HIPs) scheme. According to Conservative columnist Matthew Parris, Cooper conceived HIPs, but avoided direct criticism for its problems because of her connection with Brown.[17] In July 2007, Cooper announced in the House of Commons that "unless we act now, by 2026 first-time buyers will find average house prices are ten times their salary. That could lead to real social inequality and injustice. Every part of the country needs more affordable homes – in the North and the South, in urban and rural communities".[18]

Cooper as Minister for Housing in 2007

In 2008, Cooper became the first woman to serve as Chief Secretary to the Treasury where she was involved with taking Northern Rock into public ownership. As her husband, Ed Balls, was already a cabinet minister, her promotion meant that the two became the first married couple ever to sit in the cabinet together.[19]

In 2009, Cooper was appointed as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and took over leading on the Welfare Reform Act 2009 which included measures to extend the use of benefit sanctions to force unemployed people to seek work.[20] Many campaigners – including the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) – urged Cooper to rethink Labour's approach, arguing instead that increasing support for job seekers was vital to eradicating child poverty.[21][22]

Allegations over expenses

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Main article: United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal

In May 2009, The Daily Telegraph reported that Cooper had changed the designation of her second home twice in two years. Following a referral to the parliamentary standards watchdog, Cooper and her husband Ed Balls were exonerated by John Lyon, the Standards Commissioner. He said they had paid capital gains tax on their homes and were not motivated by profit.[23] Cooper and Balls bought a four-bedroom house in Stoke Newington, North London, and registered this as their second home (rather than their home in Castleford, West Yorkshire); this qualified them for up to £44,000 a year to subsidise a reported £438,000 mortgage under the Commons Additional Costs Allowance, of which they claimed £24,400.[24] An investigation in MPs' expenses by Sir Thomas Legg found that Cooper and her husband had both received overpayments of £1,363 in relation to their mortgage. He ordered them to repay the money.[25]

Miliband Shadow Cabinet: 2010–2015

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Main article: Shadow Cabinet of Ed Miliband
MP portrait, 2017

Prior to the 2010 general election, Cooper's constituency of Pontefract and Castleford was abolished, and replaced with Normanton, Pontefract, and Castleford. At the election, Cooper was elected as MP for Normanton, Pontefract, and Castleford with 48.1% of the vote and a majority of 10,979.[26] After Labour's defeat at the general election, Cooper and her husband Ed Balls were both mentioned in the press as a potential leadership candidates when Gordon Brown resigned as Leader of the Labour Party.

Before Balls announced his candidacy, he offered to stand aside if Cooper wanted to stand, but Cooper declined for the sake of their children, stating that it would not be the right time for her.[27][28] She later topped the 2010 ballot for places in the Shadow cabinet, and there was speculation that the newly elected Labour Leader Ed Miliband would appoint her Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer.[29][30] She instead became Shadow Foreign Secretary.

When Alan Johnson resigned as Shadow Chancellor on 20 January 2011, Cooper was appointed shadow home secretary. Her husband, Ed Balls, replaced Johnson as Shadow Chancellor. Cooper also served as Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities from October 2010 to October 2013.[15]

Shadow home secretary: 2011–2015

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On 20 January 2011, Cooper took the position of shadow home secretary amidst a shadow cabinet reshuffle.[31] In this position, Cooper shadowed Theresa May at the Home Office. She labelled the government's vans displaying posters urging illegal immigrants to go home a "divisive gimmick" in October 2013.[32]

In February 2013, she was assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4, although not in the top 20.[33]

In 2013, she proposed the appointment of a national commissioner for domestic and sexual violence.[34] She spoke at the Labour Party Conference in 2014 about eastern Europeans who were mistreated by employers of migrant labour.[35]

Cooper was strongly critical of cuts to child tax credit announced by George Osborne in the July 2015 Budget; she authored the following statement in the New Statesman:

And remember David Cameron's pre-election pledge that child tax credit is "not going to fall." It was a lie. This is a shameful betrayal of parents working hard to support their kids and get on in life. In the twenty-first century working parents shouldn't have to go to food banks to put a hot meal on the table, as too many families now do.[36]

2015 Labour leadership election

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Main article: 2015 Labour Party leadership election (UK)
Cooper speaking at the 2016 Labour Party Conference

At the 2015 general election, Cooper was re-elected as MP for Normanton, Pontefract, and Castleford with an increased vote share of 54.9% and an increased majority of 6.7%.[37] After the election and Ed Miliband's resignation, she was nominated as one of four candidates for the Labour leadership. Cooper was nominated by 59 MPs, 12 MEPs, 109 CLPs, two affiliated trade unions and one socialist society.[38][39][40] The Guardian newspaper endorsed Cooper as the "best placed" to offer a strong vision and unite the party while the New Statesman's endorsement praised her experience.[41][42] Former prime minister Gordon Brown publicly endorsed Cooper as his first choice for leader, as did former home secretary Alan Johnson.[43][44]

During the campaign, Cooper supported reintroducing the 50p income tax rate and creating more high-skilled manufacturing jobs. She proposed the introduction of a living wage for social care workers and the construction of 300,000 houses every year. Cooper disagreed that Labour spent too much whilst in government.[45]

Backbencher: 2015–2021

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Yvette Cooper campaigning with Tracy Brabin in Pontefract in 2021

Following the 2015 Labour Party leadership election, Cooper returned to the back benches, after nearly 17 years on the front bench.[46] Building on her existing work on the European refugee crisis, Cooper was appointed chair of Labour's refugee taskforce, working with local authorities, community groups and trade unions to develop a sustainable and humanitarian response to the crisis.[47][48] She spoke about the issue at Labour's annual conference in 2016.[49]

She supported Owen Smith against Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 leadership election.[50]

After a vote of MPs on 19 October 2016, Cooper was elected chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, gaining more votes than fellow candidates, Caroline Flint, Chuka Umunna and Paul Flynn.[3] As chair, Cooper launched a national inquiry into public views on immigration[51] and, after an emergency inquiry into the Dubs scheme for child refugees, criticised the government's decision to end the programme in February 2017.[52][53]

At the snap 2017 general election, Cooper was again re-elected, with an increased vote share of 59.5% and a decreased majority of 14,499.[54][55]

Cooper was critical of the May government's infrastructure plans' focus on big cities, and was formerly the chair of Labour Towns, a group of Labour MPs, councillors and mayors of towns seeking to promote investment in them – publishing a town manifesto in 2019.[56][57]

She is a member of Labour Friends of Israel.[58]

She was again re-elected at the 2019 general election, with a decreased vote share of 37.9% and a decreased majority of 1,276.[59]

Brexit

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Main article: European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2019

During the Brexit process, Cooper consistently fought against a no-deal Brexit, tabling one of the main amendments in January 2019; others to table amendments were Caroline Spelman, Graham Brady, Rachel Reeves, Dominic Grieve and Ian Blackford.[60]

In April, Cooper tabled a private members' bill, again with the intended effect of preventing a "no-deal" Brexit.[61] The Bill was voted to be discussed as an important bill using processes often used for issues of national security. MPs voted 312 to 311 in favour of allowing her bill to be fast-tracked, and it was made law on 8 April 2019.

Starmer Shadow Cabinet: 2021–2024

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Main article: Shadow Cabinet of Keir Starmer
MP portrait, 2019

Cooper was reappointed as shadow home secretary on 29 November 2021 by Keir Starmer, replacing Nick Thomas-Symonds in a shadow cabinet reshuffle.

Following allegations that Suella Braverman had breached the ministerial code by sending secure information with her private email, Cooper asked for possible security implications to be investigated. She wrote to Simon Case "I am urging you and the Home Office to now urgently undertake such an investigation [into possible security breaches] as the public has a right to know that there are proper secure information procedures in place to cover the person who has been given charge of our national security."[62][63] Cooper said that it raised doubts about the Prime Minister's judgement. She also added that people need to be able to trust the home secretary with highly sensitive information and national security.[64] Cooper said that the Conservative Party lacked ethics and adequate standards.[65]

Home secretary: 2024–present

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Due to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, Cooper's constituency of Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford was abolished, and replaced with Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley. At the 2024 general election, Cooper was elected to Parliament as MP for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley with 47.5% of the vote and a majority of 6,630.[66][67]

Cooper with Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the 92nd Interpol General Assembly, 4 November 2024

Following Labour's victory in the general election, Cooper was appointed home secretary by Starmer in his government on 5 July.[68] On 7 July, after Starmer confirmed that the Rwanda asylum plan had been scrapped, Cooper announced that the Border Security Command would be established in order to help reduce small boat crossings across the English channel.[69][70]

Following the 2024 Southport stabbing, in which three young girls were killed, Cooper stated that she was concerned by the incident and described the emergency services' response as courageous.[71] Cooper additionally visited Southport the following morning to lay flowers and meet officials and community leaders.[72] Starmer also visited the same day and laid flowers at the scene, and was heckled by some members of the public.[73] Cooper later condemned the riots across England and Northern Ireland following the stabbing.

The new office of Border Security Commander was established, whose remit would be to lead the new command and its members. The command was launched by Cooper on 7 July 2024.[74][75] The command would be funded by money previously earmarked for the Rwanda plan and would be responsible for coordinating the activities of Immigration Enforcement, MI5, the Border Force and the National Crime Agency in tackling smuggling gangs which facilitate illegal migrant crossings over the English Channel.[76][74] A team in the Home Office was tasked with setting out the remit of the command, as well as its governance structure and its strategic direction.[74][77] Martin Hewitt was appointed to the role of Border Security Commander in September 2024, by the Home Secretary.[78]

In November 2024, Cooper voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which proposes to legalise assisted suicide.[79]

Personal life

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Ed Balls

Cooper married Ed Balls on 10 January 1998[80] in Eastbourne. Her husband was Economic Secretary to the Treasury in the Tony Blair government and Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families under Gordon Brown, then in opposition was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and a candidate in the 2010 Labour Party leadership election. The couple have two daughters and one son.[81][better source needed]

Cooper has published two books, entitled She Speaks: The Power of Women's Voices and She Speaks: Women's Speeches That Changed the World, from Pankhurst to Greta, released in November 2019 and October 2020, respectively.[82][83]

See also

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Everywoman Safe Everywhere - Labour's Consultation on Women's Safety

Notes

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Preceded by Member of Parliament
for Pontefract and Castleford
1997–2010 		Constituency abolished
New constituency Member of Parliament
for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
2010–2024 		Constituency abolished
New constituency Member of Parliament
for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley
2024–present 		Incumbent
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Preceded by Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
2009–2010 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
2010 		Succeeded by
Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities
2010–2013 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Shadow Foreign Secretary
2010–2011 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Shadow Home Secretary
2011–2015 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Shadow Home Secretary
2021–2024 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Home Secretary
2024–present 		Incumbent
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