When Home Secretary Yvette Cooper learnt of Thursday's immigration figures – which covered the Tories' final year in power – she was in Erbil, in Kurdish Iraq, signing a new cross-border security agreement. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp had been so confident the new Office for National Statistics estimates would show a dramatic fall he had spent the morning touring …
Yvette Cooper is facing demands to make a Commons statement to lift 'the veil of secrecy' over whether she helped Taylor Swift to get her VVIP police escort for her London shows. Yvette Cooper is facing demands to make a Commons statement to lift 'the veil of secrecy' over whether she helped Taylor Swift to get her police escort for …
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 …
