All news on the topic: Yvette Cooper

Cigars could disappear from Britain’s shelves forever if a new "nanny state" crackdown comes to pass, tobacconists have warned.

Yvette Cooper admits Labour has “not done government very well” in the last couple of years, and accused Keir Starmer’s No 10 of sidelining her during the launch of a key immigration policy when she was home secretary.

Nurses across England are collapsing at work and even suffering seizures as they are forced to care for patients in extreme heat, The Royal College of Nursing has said.

Health secretary Yvette Cooper has accepted almost £500,000 from a businessman with commercial ties to the NHS, an analysis by the BMJ has found.

An estimated 2,877 deaths were associated with excessive heat in May and June this year – almost double the number of casualties compared to last summer.

Andy Burnham has been confirmed as the UK’s new prime minister after emerging as the Labour’s only eligible candidate for leadership.

Pakistan has blamed Britain for turning the ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang to crime.

The woman widely tipped to become Andy Burnham’s chief finance minister held a hard line on immigration as home secretary, but her economic approach is still a mystery.

The charity Save the Children has angered the government with a social media post marking Keir Starmer’s impending exit from Downing Street.

The European Union and Britain on Monday blamed a highly specialized unit of Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, for a decade-long campaign of cyber-espionage and attempted sabotage targeting critical infrastructure, including power grids and defense networks, across Europe.

The UK government will ban Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) from Britain and proscribe it as a national security threat over “threats to life and intimidation on UK soil”.

Twelve countries, including the UK, are set to spend more than £37bn ($50bn) over the next 10 years on a new long-range missile to protect Europe.

Donald Trump has threatened to pull US troops out of Europe as he revived his demand for control of Greenland.

Russian scientists involved in the development of the Novichok nerve agent have been sanctioned by the Government.

Andy Burnham is being urged to prioritise Europe over the US amid criticism that his predecessor was too close to Donald Trump.

The demand for the expulsion of millions of Muslim people from the UK received 36 million views after being shared by Musk on his X platform

Andy Burnham is on course for a coronation as prime minister, as opposition to his leadership bid dramatically melted away following Sir Keir Starmer’s resignation.

Keir Starmer has announced his departure from Downing Street in an emotional statement after spending the weekend weighing up his future with his wife Victoria.

Keir Starmer has revealed how he plans to take the fight to Andy Burnham - and keep his job as Prime Minister.

The UK government has won its appeal to maintain the ban on Palestine Action. In response, the group’s co-founder, Huda Ammori, vowed to fight the proscription all the way to the Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights, calling the ban an extreme attack on free speech and protest.

Sir Keir Starmer welcomed the US-Iran peace deal as a “hugely important step forward in ending the war” as he stressed that the Strait of Hormuz must remain “fully and permanently open”.

The UK government is under mounting pressure to ban an event that has advertised the sale of illegally occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank.

Vladimir Putin’s representative in the UK has been summoned to the Foreign Office after a Russian drone struck a building in Romania.