Yvette Cooper ( born March 20 , 1969 ) is an English politician and the current Shadow Foreign Secretary . She is the Member of Parliament for the Normanton , Pontefract and Castleford constituency in the United Kingdom . Yvette Cooper ( born 20 March 1969 ) is a British Labor Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Normanton , Pontefract and Castleford since 2010 , having previously been MP for Pontefract and Castleford since 1997 .