Inside Downing Street and the Home Office they’re hardly daring to whisper it. ‘They ran around saying, “We’ve finally got this under control!” And then the numbers surged.’ But two months after taking office, there are tentative signs Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper may just be starting to get with grips with the Government’s most significant – and seemingly intractable …
Home secretary Yvette Cooper has revealed that Rishi Sunak’s government has already spent £700m on the plan to remove asylum seekers to Rwanda and had planned to spend a further £10bn. In a stinging speech in the House of Commons, Ms Cooper said the Tory government has left an asylum backlog like “Hotel California” because it stopped processing thousands of …
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Yvette Cooper said 1,000 civil servants had been redeployed from working on the now-abandoned Rwanda …
The Red revolution began with coffee and congratulations today as Keir Starmer gathered his new Cabinet. Meanwhile, incoming Health Secretary Wes Streeting has already opened talks with the BMA over the junior doctors' strikes, sparking fears he could offer big concessions to their demands for 35 per cent pay hikes. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy DPM Angela Rayner and Chancellor Rachel …
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said shoplifters had been ‘encouraged’ by …