"of former mining towns and villages. The MP from 1997 until its abolition in 2010, Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, is married to former fellow Labour MP, former Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls. Following their review of parliamentary representation in West Yorkshire, the number of seats in West Yorkshire were reduced by one due to population decline by the Boundary Commission for England. A new, geographically larger, constituency called Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford was created in 2010 including the whole of this constituency. Pontefract and Castleford (UK Parliament constituency) Pontefract and Castleford was a constituency represented in the House of Commons"
"she was assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by ""Woman's Hour"" on BBC Radio 4. Yvette Cooper Yvette Cooper (born 20 March 1969) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford since 2010, having served as the MP for Pontefract and Castleford since 1997. She served in the Cabinet between 2008 and 2010 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and then as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. After Labour lost the 2010 general election, Cooper"
"Yvette Cooper Yvette Cooper (born 20 March 1969) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford since 2010, having served as the MP for Pontefract and Castleford since 1997. She served in the Cabinet between 2008 and 2010 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and then as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. After Labour lost the 2010 general election, Cooper was appointed as Shadow Foreign Secretary, then became Shadow Home Secretary in 2011. On 13 May 2015, Cooper announced she would run"
"for that election. He was made a peer on 11 June 1997. Yvette Cooper MP, was elected MP for the Pontefract and Castleford constituency at the 1997 general election. Cooper held a number of positions in the Labour governments up to 2010, followed by Shadow Cabinet roles after the election of that year, but returned to the back benches following the Labour leadership election of 2015. Pontefract and Castleford was merged with the Normanton constituency in a boundary change before the 2010 general election. In her maiden speech to the House of Commons, Cooper said:It is true that my constituency"
"over allegations that they were claiming expenses for what was effectively their main home in London; their combined claim was £24,000 i.e. ""slightly more"" than the single MP allowance. The commissioner exonerated them, adding that their motives were not for profit as they paid full capital gains tax. He married Labour MP Yvette Cooper, who later became Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Shadow Home Secretary, in Eastbourne on 10 January 1998. Cooper is Member of Parliament for Morley & Outwood's neighbouring constituency of Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford. They have three children, all of whom are entitled to"
"Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (UK Parliament constituency) Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Yvette Cooper of the Labour Party since its 2010 creation. Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which recommended this constituency for the 2010 general election in the district of the city of Wakefield. Due to less increase in population than elsewhere the Commission had to reduce constituencies in the county by one, resulting in the ""merger"" of Normanton and Pontefract/Castleford seats, however some wards of both went to other neighbouring"
"In 1983 Cooper stood aside after the boundary changes for the new Foyle constituency to let his colleague and friend John Hume contest the seat. The increase in levels of violence intertwined with the politics made Cooper slowly move away from politics. He is now an insolvency consultant. At the height of his political career, Ivan Cooper commanded the largest support of any nationalist Stormont MP. A film was released in 2002, called ""Bloody Sunday"", in which Cooper is portrayed by actor James Nesbitt. He is the husband of Frances Cooper, and has two daughters; Sinead and Bronagh Cooper. Ivan"
"affluent suburbs of Pontefract and outlying villages such as Darrington, combined with less wealthy areas such as Chequerfield, whilst North Ward includes parts of Monkhill, Ladybalk and Myson Chair. From 1978 to 1997 the local ex-miner and former local NUM branch leader Geoff Lofthouse (18 December 1925 – 1 November 2012) was MP for the former constituency of Pontefract and Castleford. During this time he rose to the position of Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons. When the general election of 1997 was called he stood down to allow Yvette Cooper to be selected as the Labour Party candidate"
"was from a working-class background working at Ackton Hall Colliery, Featherstone. He lived at 11 Bedford Close, Featherstone with his wife Gwen and youngest daughter Pat. He had a further daughter, Wendy, who also resided on Bedford Close, and two sons Glyn and Graham. Joseph Harper (English politician) Joseph Harper (17 March 1914 – 24 June 1978) was a Labour Party politician in Great Britain. He was elected as the Member of Parliament MP for Pontefract at a by-election in 1962. He was MP for the constituency and then the reformed Pontefract and Castleford constituency until he died in office"
"(additionally) Acting Archdeacon of Stansted until the first incumbent of that post (Robin King) was collated on 15 September 2013. During 2013, Cooper was elected by and from among the female ""senior priests"" of the East Anglia region to attend meetings (as 'participant observers') of the House of Bishops as one of eight Regional Representatives, as an interim measure until six women sit in the House by right. She served until that arrangement was ended in December 2016. Cooper retired during November 2018. In 1972, the then Annette Whitaker married Andrew Cooper. Together, they have two sons and four grandchildren."
"Yvette Cooper for the leadership and gave his second preference to Liz Kendall. Cashman registered a civil partnership with Paul Cottingham, his partner of over twenty years, on 11 March 2006. They met in 1983 and were together for 31 years until Cottingham died. A fellow actor and humanitarian activist, Cottingham who also worked for the Labour Party as High Value fundraiser and for Britain in Europe, became Cashman's researcher during Cashman's time in the European Parliament. In March 2011 he was diagnosed with a very rare cancer, angiosarcoma, and died on 23 October 2014 at the Royal Marsden Hospital,"
"1933 Cooper married Catherine Elizabeth Hood (died 2002) and together had three sons and a daughter. Cooper died in Brisbane in September 2000 and was cremated at the Albany Creek Crematorium. Cooper, representing the Labor, won the 1952 by-election to replace Walter Ingram who had died earlier in the year. He went on to hold the seat until the 1957 Queensland state election when, as a member of the newly formed Queensland Labor Party, he lost the seat to the ALP candidate, Merv Thackeray. Viv Cooper Vivian Joseph Northcote Cooper (19 June 1909 – 10 September 2000) was a member"
"for Congleton until both retired at the 2010 general election. The former had commenced serving as MP for Macclesfield from 1971. They are also contenders for the record of couple with highest collective years of service in the Commons, totaling 66 years. Longest span of couple's service in the Commons Although differing in that the husband's service preceded and outlasted the wife's, the Bevans' span has been surpassed by Sir Peter Bottomley who has served in the Commons since 26 June 1975 and his wife Virginia, who sat as MP for South West Surrey from by-election on 4 May 1984"
"she remained his PPS when he was made Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. She is a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Health Select Committee. In August 2013, she became one of the few Labour MPs to vote against the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, which eventually passed with cross-party support. On 26 October 2017, a 31-year-old man, Christopher Lythgoe, associated with the proscribed neo-Nazi terror group National Action, was charged with encouragement to murder Cooper, and was also charged along with six other men with being members of a proscribed organisation, contrary to section 11 of the"
"Julie Cooper (politician) Julie Elizabeth Cooper (born 20 June 1960) is a British Labour Party politician, who is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Burnley. She was elected at the 2015 General Election, defeating the sitting Liberal Democrat MP Gordon Birtwistle, with a 6.3% swing. An English teacher by profession, Cooper studied at Edge Hill University before going on to teach at secondary level. She then went on to run a Burnley-based pharmacy business with her husband. She was first elected as a Labour councillor for Burnley Borough Council's Bank Hall ward in May 2005, and later became leader of"
"was an active supporter of former shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper in the 2015 Labour Leadership contest. She has introduced Cooper at various Labour Party events and has contributed to her speeches. Solemani married Daniel E. Ingram , a sustainable investment expert specialising in climate change in Petah Tikva, Israel on 3 June 2012. Their daughter was born in December 2013. The couple revealed their daughter's godparents at a ceremony in the New London Synagogue. Their child's godfather is comedian Simon Amstell and godmother is Dr Orlanda Ward, a gender and politics expert and teaching fellow at University College London."
"build links between it and the IPMS, leading in 2001 to the two unions merging to form Prospect, of which Cooper served as Joint General Secretary for the first year. He also served on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress from 1997 to 2000. Cooper served on a large number of committees, including the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, Postal Services Commission and the Forestry Commission, the Government Energy Advisory Panel, and the European Union Energy Consultative, Strategy and Investment Committees. He retired from the last of his posts in 2015. Cooper's daughter, Yvette Cooper, is a Labour Party Member"
"Leonie Cooper Leonie Alison Cooper is a British Labour & Co-operative Party politician. Since May 2016 she has represented Merton and Wandsworth on the London Assembly. She has served as a Councillor on the Wandsworth London Borough Council since 2006, representing Latchmere 2006-10 and Furzedown Ward from 2010 onwards. Cooper worked in the field of social housing, including as a Sustainability Manager for a large Housing group. Cooper is a Vice-President of the Putney and Roehampton Branch of the United Nations Association, and chairs the Wandsworth Co-op Party. She is active as a member of the Friends of Tooting Common,"
"of the monarchy. Cooper did not respond, nor did he participate in the Penruddock uprising in March 1655. On 30 August 1655, Cooper married his third wife, Margaret Spencer (1627–1693), daughter of William Spencer, 2nd Baron Spencer of Wormleighton and sister of Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland. Cooper was again elected as a member for Wiltshire in the Second Protectorate Parliament, although when the parliament met on 17 September 1656, Cooper was one of 100 members whom the Council of State excluded from the parliament. Cooper was one of 65 excluded members to sign a petition protesting their exclusion"
"Yorkshire, by 1636. They had five sons and nine daughters, including He was also the brother of Sir John Lowther, 1st Baronet. William Lowther (died 1688) Sir William Lowther (c. 1612 – February 1688) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1679. Lowther was the son of Sir John Lowther of Lowther Hall and his wife Eleanor Fleming, daughter of Wiliam Fleming of Rydal. In 1660, he was elected Member of Parliament for Pontefract in the Convention Parliament He was re-elected MP for Pontefract in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament. He"
"married to Fiona, with whom he has a daughter. They lived on Victoria Road, Chester, until mid-2016, when they moved to Winchester. They have since divorced. Woolfe is a Catholic. Steven Woolfe Steven Marcus Woolfe (born 6 October 1967) is an English politician, who has served as a Member of the European Parliament for the North West England region since the 2014 European election. Woolfe was considered a frontrunner in UKIP's 2016 leadership election, but was excluded from the race after submitting his nomination late. After Diane James resigned from the party leadership, Woolfe was standing in the second UKIP"
"at the result. She added: “There has been a lot of nonsense on both sides but I have certainly never been one for scaremongering. I actually do think this will leave the NHS worse off though. I really do worry for its future”. She also said it was “a time of great uncertainty for business owners in general”. In September 2017, she voted against the European Repeal Bill. Julie Cooper (politician) Julie Elizabeth Cooper (born 20 June 1960) is a British Labour Party politician, who is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Burnley. She was elected at the 2015 General"
"FMCG [fast-moving consumer goods] company."" Cooper has been a non-executive director of Inchcape plc since July 2009. In October 2012, Cooper noted that she and Burberry’s Angela Ahrendts were the only two female CEOs running FTSE 100 Index companies. Despite this, she has stressed that she does not support the introduction of quotas intended to increase female participation in boardrooms. In February 2013, she was assessed by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4 as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom. Cooper is married with two daughters. She drives a Porsche Carrera and enjoys a pint"
"Navy officer Carlos Garreta. In February 2014, she married her colleague, Conservative MP Mark Lancaster. She is a lifetime supporter of Portsmouth F.C. Caroline Dinenage Caroline Julia Dinenage (born 28 October 1971) is a British Conservative Party politician who was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Gosport at the 2010 general election. She was re-elected in 2015 and 2017. A former Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Minister for Women and Equalities, Nicky Morgan, Dinenage has served in Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State roles at the Ministry of Justice, Department for Education and Department for Work and Pensions, before being"
"marriage was to Sophia L'Estrange, daughter of Colonel Henry Peisley L'Estrange of Moystown, Cloghan, County Offaly. They had no children, but he had five daughters with his second wife Sarah Frances Wynne, daughter of Owen Wynne MP of Hazelwood House, Sligo. Cooper left Oxford after two years without taking a degree. He spent most of the next decade travelling abroad, pursuing an interest in astronomy which is believed to have been nurtured by his mother, and was developed as a schoolboy in Armagh on visits to the Armagh Observatory. He travelled with portable instruments, which he used to calculate the"
"Sir John Cooper, 1st Baronet Sir John Cooper, 1st Baronet (died 23 March 1630), was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1628 to 1629. He was father of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury. Cooper’s grandfather, a paymaster in Henry VIII’s service, bought Pawlett manor in about 1530. The family prospered, and Cooper’s father, Sir John Cooper (1552–1610) a soldier served as a member of parliament for White church in Hampshire 1584 and 1586, by his marriage to Margaret, a daughter of Anthony Skutt, of Stanton Drew in Somerset. died in 1610"
"improve the speed with which small businesses are paid by their customers. Abrahams married John Abrahams, a former captain of Lancashire County cricket team, in the late 1980s. They have two daughters, both of whom were sent to private schools, despite Abrahams being opposed to selective education. Debbie Abrahams Deborah Angela Elspeth Marie Abrahams (' Morgan; born 15 September 1960) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Oldham East and Saddleworth constituency since a by-election in January 2011. Her previous career was as a public health consultant. Abrahams was born in"
"Parliament at the 1830 general election. His son Edward Joshua Cooper, who had been elected in his place in 1830, inherited Markree in 1837 on the death of Joshua Edward Cooper. His second wife Anne survived her husband and all three of her sons. She died in November 1864, in Dunboden. County Westmeath, aged 92. Her oldest son Edward Joshua had died a year before her in 1863, her second son Joshua Henry died in infancy, and her youngest son Richard died in 1850. Edward Synge Cooper Edward Synge Cooper (5 March 1762 – 16 August 1830) was an Irish"
"letters patent which described him as of Rockbourne in the county of Southampton. In 1628 Cooper was elected Member of Parliament for Poole. The parliament was dissolved on 10 March 1629. Cooper married firstly Anne Ashley, the daughter and sole heir of Sir Anthony Ashley, 1st Baronet, of Wimborne St Giles in Dorset. His first wife died soon after her father on 20 July 1628, leaving a daughter, Philippa (who married Sir Adam Brown and died in 1701) and two sons, Anthony-Ashley and George. Cooper married secondly Mary, Lady Morrison, the widow of Sir Charles Morrison, 1st Baronet and a"
"Joshua Cooper (1732–1800) Joshua Cooper (1732 – 16 December 1800) was an Irish landowner and politician from County Sligo. He sat in the House of Commons of Ireland from 1761 to 1783, as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Castlebar from 1761 to 1768, and for Sligo County 1768 to 1783. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1776 by King George III. Cooper was the older of two sons of Joshua Cooper MP and his wife Mary, the daughter of Richard Bingham of Newbrook, County Mayo. He inherited his father's estate of Markree Castle near Collooney. He married Alicia"
"of Oxford and Asquith was elected in the House of Lords by-election to replace the late Lord Methuen (who died in July 2014) and to sit as a Liberal Democrat, alongside his cousin Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury on the government benches (as the LibDems were then part of a coalition government) in the House of Lords. Married since 1978 to the author and scholar Clare Pollen (born 2 June 1951), eldest daughter of the architect Francis Anthony Baring Pollen (1926–1987) by his wife Marie Therese Sheridan (later Viscountess Sidmouth, wife of the 7th Viscount), the Earl and Countess of Oxford"
"Penelope Lyttelton, Viscountess Cobham Penelope Ann Lyttelton, Viscountess Cobham, CBE (""née"" Cooper; born 2 January 1954), is a British businesswoman known for her involvement in a number of quangos (an acronym for quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations). She presently serves as director general of the 5% Club. Penelope Ann Cooper was educated at St James's School, West Malvern. In 1974, she married John Lyttelton, son of Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, and heir apparent to the Viscountcy of Cobham. Three years later, upon the death of her father-in-law, the couple became Viscount and Viscountess Cobham. Along with the title came the two-century-old"
"before July 1689 when he was described as ""recently deceased"". Cooper married Elizabeth Oldfield, daughter of John Oldfield, fishmonger and sugar refiner of London, in July 1647, They had two sons and six daughters. George Cooper (Poole MP) George Cooper (1626–1689) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1654 and 1673. He fought in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War. Cooper was the second son of Sir John Cooper, 1st Baronet of Rockbourne, Hampshire and was baptised on 15 December 1626. Throughout his life he was overshadowed by his brother"