"I decided I don't want to go for the top job now. I could be working for another 25 years and I'd like to be reading bedtime stories to my children for another two or three years."
— Yvette Cooper

January 1, 1970

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Members of the Parliament of the United KingdomActivists from ScotlandLGBT rights activistsEconomists from ScotlandHome Secretaries (UK)
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On why she did not nominate herself to become Leader of the Labour Party, during BBC's Today programme (May 2010).