"I've been rather warming to Yvette Cooper over the last year or two. She was one of those new Labour women whom Tories loved to hate at first. I found her pretty irritating. There was something slightly cold and zombie-like in which she used the apparatchik-speak language of New Labour politics and never really seemed to engage with people. She seemed too much like an operative and not enough like a minister. But I've noticed her changing. She's relaxed. She's got funnier."
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Matthew Parris, newspaper columnist and former Conservative MP talking about Cooper (October 2010).
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Yvette Cooper
Yvette Cooper (born 20 March 1969) is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Home Secretary since July 2024. In 2008, she was appointed as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and later served as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (2009–2010). A former Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee (2016–2021), Cooper was appointed as Shadow Home Secretary in 2021, having previously served in the same role from 2011 to 2015. Cooper was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Norma
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