'Not the ministry of fun': Troubling issues clatter onto Yvette Cooper's desk

found 2025 › Feb › 01 (Sat) @ 19:06 UTC

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The home secretary is facing issues like migrant crossings and child abuse images - how is she faring?

Pressure grows on Met over ‘heavy-handed’ policing of pro-Gaza protest

found 2025 › Jan › 31 (Fri) @ 11:32 UTC

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Trade unions write to home secretary to complain about officers’ behaviour and tactics in London on 18 January

The Met police is facing growing questions over its handling of a pro-Palestine protest i…

QUENTIN LETTS: As Channel 4's gripping drama Brian and Maggie concludes, a throwback to a time when politicians faced real TV grillings instead of being interviewed by their husbands like Yvette Cooper!

found 2025 › Jan › 30 (Thu) @ 12:08 UTC

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Though from different parties, they were both working-class challengers to the old order and they bonded.

QUENTIN LETTS: As Channel 4's gripping drama Brian and Maggie concludes, a throwback to a time when politicians faced real TV grilling's instead of being interviewed by their husbands like Yvette Cooper!

found 2025 › Jan › 30 (Thu) @ 06:47 UTC

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Though from different parties, they were both working-class challengers to the old order and they bonded.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper rejects calls in leaked Home Office report to widen definition of extremism to include the far-left, conspiracy theorists and violent misogyny

found 2025 › Jan › 28 (Tue) @ 16:49 UTC

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The controversial Home Office review suggested that extremism should be categorised as concerning behaviours and activity rather than ideologies.

Tech giants are 'failing to act' and risk causing a 'second Southport' atrocity if they do not remove sick videos that could 'inspire' future terror attacks on British soil, Yvette Cooper warns

found 2025 › Jan › 25 (Sat) @ 22:33 UTC

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Yvette Cooper voiced concerns that the extreme videos watched by the killer could lead to a 'second Southport' warning that social media firms were 'failing to act'.

Online knife buyers would need to show ID and record live video to prove age in major overhaul after Southport attacker bought weapon on Amazon

found 2025 › Jan › 22 (Wed) @ 12:58 UTC

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Home Secretary Yvette Cooper told the House of Commons yesterday that it was a 'disgrace' that Rudakubana was able to buy knives on Amazon despite being under 18.

Southport killer will be treated as a terrorist in jail, Yvette Cooper tells MPs – politics live

found 2025 › Jan › 21 (Tue) @ 17:55 UTC

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Home secretary also says inquiry into the attack will cover wider threat posed by youth violence

Starmer says nothing will be off the table in the inquiry.

There are also questions about the accountabi…

Home Secretary berated over Southport 'cover-up': Yvette Cooper claims she was 'keen' to reveal Southport suspect's terror links earlier - but was 'advised' he could end up 'walking free'

found 2025 › Jan › 21 (Tue) @ 17:55 UTC

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Yvette Cooper was grilled on why the government was not more transparent over the Axel Rudakubana case as she faced the Commons.

Southport killer admitted carrying a knife more than 10 times

found 2025 › Jan › 21 (Tue) @ 17:55 UTC

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Public bodies failed to identify the threat posed by Axel Rudakubana, says Home Secretary Yvette Cooper.