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expenses edit 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 21 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 22 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 23 miliband shadow cabinet 2010 2015 edit main article miliband shadow cabinet 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 24 following 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 25 26 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 27 28 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 13 shadow home secretary 2011 2015 edit on 20 january 2011 cooper took the position of shadow home secretary amidst a shadow cabinet reshuffle 29 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 30 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 31 in 2013 she proposed the appointment of a national commissioner for domestic and sexual violence 32 she spoke at the labour party conference in 2014 about eastern europeans who were mistreated by employers of migrant labour 33 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 34 2015 labour leadership election edit 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 35 following 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 36 37 38 39 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 40 41 former prime minister gordon brown publicly endorsed cooper as his first choice for leader as did former home secretary alan johnson 42 43 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 had spent too much whilst in government 44 cooper came third with 17 0 of the vote in the first round losing to jeremy corbyn and subsequently resigned as shadow home secretary 45 backbencher 2015 2021 edit mp portrait 2019 cooper returned to the backbenches following her defeat in the leadership election after nearly 17 years on the frontbench 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 following 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 51 as chair cooper launched a national inquiry into public views on immigration 52 and after an emergency inquiry into the dubs scheme for child refugees criticised the government s decision to end the programme in february 2017 53 54 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 55 56 yvette cooper campaigning with tracy brabin in pontefract in 2021 as part of the centenary celebrations of the women s suffrage centenary in the uk yvette cooper wore an outfit and rosette in the colours of the women s social and political union 57 an organisation which conducted a bombing and arson campaign between the years 1912 and 1914 causing injuries and deaths 58 59 60 61 62 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 63 64 she is a member of labour friends of israel 65 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 66 brexit edit 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 67 in april cooper tabled a private members bill again with the intended effect of preventing a no deal brexit 68 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 edit main article starmer shadow cabinet 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 69 70 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 71 cooper said that the conservative party lacked ethics and adequate standards 72 home secretary 2024 2025 edit cooper with prime minister keir starmer at the 92nd interpol general assembly 4 november 2024 due to the 2023 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 73 74 following labour s victory in the general election cooper was appointed home secretary by starmer in his government on 5 july 75 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 76 77 following the 2024 southport stabbings in which three young girls were killed cooper stated that she was concerned by the incident and described the emergency services response as courageous 78 cooper additionally visited southport the following morning to lay flowers and meet officials and community leaders 79 starmer also visited the same day and laid flowers at the scene and was heckled by some members of the public 80 cooper later condemned the riots across england and northern ireland following the stabbing after axel rudakubana s guilty plea on 20 january 2025 cooper announced a public inquiry stating that the victims families needed answers about what had happened leading up to the attack 81 this was followed by starmer s promise to overhaul terrorism laws to reflect the type of non ideological killings characterised by individuals like rudakubana stressing the threat from acts of extreme violence perpetrated by loners misfits young men in their bedroom accessing all manner of material online desperate for notoriety sometimes inspired by traditional terrorist groups but fixated on that extreme violence seemingly for its own sake 82 significant attention was drawn to the anti radicalisation prevent programme for failing to accept referrals of rudakubana on the basis of him lacking a terrorist ideology although an emergency review found that prevent had followed correct procedures on each referral cooper concluded that too much weight was placed on the absence of ideology in the programme cooper announced that there would be a review on the threshold at which prevent intervenes with senior lawyer david anderson being assigned by starmer as the independent prevent commissioner to perform the review 82 83 cooper with french interior minister bruno retailleau in february 2025 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 84 85 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 86 84 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 84 87 martin hewitt was appointed to the role of border security commander in september 2024 by the home secretary 86 cooper faced a significant backlash over her immigration crackdown with critics saying that her plans were a waste of taxpayer money lack detail and fail to recognise the dignity and humanity of migrants especially in the wake of recent racist riots that targeted hotels housing asylum seekers across the country with amnesty international accusing cooper of reheating the conservative government s rhetoric around border security and enver solomon of the refugee council stating that she was wasting taxpayers money on expanding detention places 88 cooper s border security asylum and immigration bill was criticised by fellow labour mps for retaining conservative era anti migrant legislation with sarah champion criticising the bill for disqualifying asylum seekers who cross the channel in small boats from claiming protection from modern slavery and nadia whittome stating the legislation must reverse powers to detain child refugees for up to 28 days 89 later in september 2024 she was likewise also accused of playing catch up to reform 90 after a trans rights protest in london she branded messages of trans solidarity on the statues of several influential figures including south african prime minister jan smuts disgraceful 91 in november 2024 cooper voted in favour of the terminally ill adults end of life bill which proposes to legalise assisted suicide 92 in may 2025 starmer launched a white paper on the topic of immigration with a speech including that the uk risked becoming an island of strangers and that high immigration had done incalculable damage to society 93 94 his language was criticised for its perceived echoes of enoch powell s rivers of blood speech 95 and in june starmer apologised for his island of strangers comment saying that the phrase wasn t right and i deeply regret using it 95 later cooper said she had been effectively excluded from launching the immigration white paper which was a home office policy by the prime minister s office who wanted it fronted by starmer saying i didn t see what was going to be said or what the announcement was that was the way that no 10 operated 96 on 23 june 2025 after a small group of palestine action people broke into raf brize norton and caused criminal damage to military planes cooper reported to parliament that the group was to be designated as a proscribed terrorist organisation 97 foreign secretary 2025 2026 edit further information list of international trips made by yvette cooper as foreign secretary cooper and marco rubio in december 2025 cooper greeting us president donald trump and first lady melania trump in september 2025 cooper was appointed foreign secretary on 5 september 2025 during the cabinet reshuffle which followed the resignation of deputy prime minister angela rayner 98 99 she became the first woman in british political history to have served as both home and foreign secretary 100 her first overseas visit as foreign secretary was a trip to ukraine during which she met with ukrainian foreign minister andrii sybiha and announced sanctions against companies involved in supporting the russian invasion 101 as foreign secretary cooper oversaw the british government s decision in 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