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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] 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.
Coterminous with the leadership election, in the 2015 Labour Party deputy leadership election, Tom Watson was elected to succeed Harman as deputy leader. Four candidates were successfully nominated to stand in the election: Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper, Jeremy Corbyn, and Liz Kendall. The voting process began on Friday 14 August 2015 and closed ...
Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford was a constituency [n 1] in West Yorkshire of the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.It was represented by Yvette Cooper of the Labour Party for the whole of its creation.
Keir Starmer is facing a wipeout in many areas where gains were made at July’s general election, according to a new poll Labour would lose nearly 200 seats with Angela Rayner and Yvette Cooper ...
Responding to Labour’s bill, Amnesty International refugee and migrant rights director Steve Valdez-Symonds said: “It is less than two years since Yvette Cooper stood in parliament to oppose ...
It is currently represented by Yvette Cooper of the Labour Party, [n 2] who currently serves as Home Secretary under the government of Keir Starmer. Cooper was MP for the predecessor seats of Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford from 2010 to 2024, and Pontefract and Castleford from 1997 to 2010.
General election 2001: Pontefract and Castleford [3] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour: Yvette Cooper: 21,890 : 69.7 : −6.0 : Conservative: Pamela Singleton 5,512 17.6 +4.0 Liberal Democrats: Wesley Paxton 2,315 7.4 0.0 UKIP: John Burdon 739 2.4 New: Socialist Labour: Trevor Bolderson 605 1.9 New: Socialist Alliance: John Gill 330 1.1 New ...
Yvette Cooper has contributed opinion articles to The Guardian for many years, with the earliest available online dating to April 2001. Guardian opinion pieces are distinguished online by an ...