article_snippet.sent: Of course, Balls is now married to fellow Shadow Cabinet Minister Yvette Cooper.
article_snippet.sent: fellow Shadow Cabinet Minister Yvette Cooper and Flanders were tutorial partners and Kennedy scholars at Harvard.
article_snippet.sent: fellow Shadow Cabinet Minister Yvette Cooper once shared a house with Miliband (who apparently had a few other girlfriends).
article_snippet.sent: And fellow Shadow Cabinet Minister Yvette Cooper met Balls when Cooper and Flanders worked at the FT.
article_snippet.sent: fellow Shadow Cabinet Minister Yvette Cooper worked for a time for Tony Blair, who described fellow Shadow Cabinet Minister Yvette Cooper in Miliband memoirs as 'an English rose, intellectually able and blue stocking or red stocking according to the occasion'.
article_snippet.sent: Cooper and Flanders stayed in the family home of one of Miliband's first girlfriends, Juliet Soskice (the daughter of an LSE political economist and who went on to marry the late tycoon Andrew Rosenfeld, who gave £1 million to the Labour Party).