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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/leader-miliband-well-supported.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Shadow Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper appearing on The Andrew Marr Show" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-leader-miliband-well-supported.jpg" alt="Shadow Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper appearing on The Andrew Marr Show"/></a></p>
<p>Senior shadow cabinet minister Yvette Cooper has rejected suggestions that Ed Miliband had made a lack-lustre start to his time as Labour leader.</p>
<p>Ms Cooper and her husband Ed Balls have both been tipped as possible successors to Mr Miliband if he is ousted from the leadership.</p>
<p>But she insisted that the shadow cabinet team were &#8220;very supportive&#8221; of their leader and said he had already laid some punches on Conservatives over issues like housing benefit and school sports.</p>
<p>Speculation over Mr Miliband&#8217;s future has heightened following poor performances in a BBC interview and at Prime Minister&#8217;s Questions, while his shadow chancellor Alan Johnson has openly disagreed with him on key issues like the future of the 50p top rate of income tax and university fees.</p>
<p>Ladbrokes has halved its odds on Mr Johnson replacing Mr Miliband from 33-1 to 16-1 after receiving a &#8220;substantial gamble&#8221; on him, and cut the odds on a change in Labour&#8217;s leadership before the next election from 5-2 to 2-1.</p>
<p>Mr Miliband has also faced criticism for taking two weeks&#8217; paternity leave shortly after he became leader.</p>
<p>But Ms Cooper told BBC1&#8217;s Andrew Marr Show that he was &#8220;exactly right&#8221; to take time off after the birth of his son Samuel.</p>
<p>She added: &#8220;He is doing a very good job and has got a very supportive team around him.</p>
<p>&#8220;If you look at some of the things Ed has been focused on &#8211; housing benefit reforms are now being delayed, on school sports there&#8217;s been a rethink. He is right to focus on these issues.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ms Cooper said she backed Mr Miliband&#8217;s preferred option of a graduate tax to fund universities.</p>
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