All news on the topic: Yvette Cooper

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UK riot thugs face up to 10 years in prison under government crackdown
Justice Minister Heidi Alexander said thugs taking part in disorder have a ’prison place waiting for them’ and could face the maximum 10 year sentence for taking part in riots
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Failed Rwanda deportation scheme cost £700m, says Yvette Cooper
Home secretary describes Tory policy that Labour has axed as ‘the biggest waste of taxpayer money I have ever seen’
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Top immigration inspector sacked for warning private jet flights weren't checked
David Neal was sacked after claiming that hundreds of private jet passengers were allowed into the UK without going through proper checks, which he branded a "scandal"
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Rishi Sunak's premiership now accounts for a third of small boat arrivals
New analysis found the total number of arrivals since Sunak took office had risen to 38,668 - over a third of the 115,927 who have crossed the Channel since the crisis began
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British Jews suffer 'worst antisemitism' in 40 years amid hundreds of assaults
The Community Security Trust's chief executive Mark Gardner described the "explosion in hatred" against the Jewish community as "an absolute disgrace"
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Fury as James Cleverly pleads for £2.6billion to plug asylum black hole
Tories have been accused of 'busting the budget' after Home Secretary James Cleverly said he needed an extra £2.6billion to plug a Home Office budget black hole
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Delays in knife crime decisions rocket as police 'spend days Tipp-Exing files'
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper warned unnecessary bureaucracy is hampering efforts to tackle knife crime as she claimed the Home Office under the Tories 'isn't doing its job properly'
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Bungling Tories admit 5,598 asylum seekers have vanished in immigration farce
Tory immigration ministers Tom Pursglove and Michael Tomlinson admitted they don't know where nearly a third of people whose asylum applications were withdrawn are
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​Tory Therese Coffey's attack on Labour backfires in excruciating Commons moment
The Tory MP attempted to scold Yvette Cooper over Rwanda, saying the Shadow Home Secretary couldn't 'get the name of the country right' after referring to Kigali - the capital
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Tories vote to keep Rwanda costs secret as Labour asks what they're hiding
Labour Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper estimated that the Government has pledged almost £400million to Rwanda, with additional payments of around £200,000 per person sent there
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Labour demands Rishi Sunak come clean over Rwanda scheme documents
The papers reportedly suggest Rishi Sunak was not convinced by the Rwanda plan when it was being drawn up. Now Labour has called on the PM to publish the papers
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Home Office warned of spiking 'jokes' the day James Cleverly made date-rape gag
Home Secretary James Cleverly was forced to apologise after we revealed he joked about drugging his wife, saying 'a little bit of Rohypnol in her drink every night' was 'not really illegal if it's only a little bit'
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Rishi Sunak 'has confidence' in James Cleverly as date-rape joke pressure grows
Prime Minister RIshi Sunak is under pressure to denounce the Home Secretary's remarks after James Cleverly joked about giving his wife a date-rape drug
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James Cleverly's gaffe-filled 42 days as Home Secretary - swearing to sick joke
Home Secretary James Cleverly - who is facing calls to resign after he joked about giving his wife a date-rape joke - has been branded 'Colonel Calamity' by Tory MPs
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Some 900,000 burglaries unsolved in last four years - more than Leeds population
The Liberal Democrats blamed years of Tory cuts leaving local police forces 'overstretched and unable to focus on frontline crime like burglaries'
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New spiking clampdown as Tories look at 'long overdue' changes to law
The Home Office announced pub and club staff will be trained to spot signs of spiking as they weigh up ways to strengthen the law, with nearly 5,000 cases a year in England and Wales
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Starmer and Blair join mourners at Labour 'matriarch' Glenys Kinnock's funeral
Figures from across Labour's past and present, including Gordon Brown, Alastair Campbell, Lord Mandelson and Ed Balls, all attended the service in north London
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More than £20million spent on Bibby Stockholm barge used to house asylum seekers
The Home Office has admitted the cost of the controversial Bibby Stockholm barge that is being used to accommodate hundreds of asylum seekers is docked in Portland Port
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Rishi Sunak told he's 'dead man walking' as he faces nightmare after Christmas
Tory rebels have threatened to torpedo Rishi Sunak's emergency Rwanda legislation unless the Prime Minister gives into their demands, with plotters warning he's 'f***ed'
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Tory farce as James Cleverly becomes third Home Secretary to sign Rwanda deal
More than £140million has already been handed to the African nation by UK Home Secretaries in the past two years - despite not a single asylum seeker being sent there
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Small boat crossings to be second highest year on record despite Sunak pledge
Despite Rishi Sunak’s promise to ‘stop the boats’, this year’s figure is just 73 away from the second highest ever - 2021’s total of 28,526
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Tory crackdown on NHS staff from abroad will be 'final straw' for care sector
Unison General Secretary Christina McAnea expressed alarm over Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick's push to cap NHS and social care visas, and ban foreign care workers from bringing dependents
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Voters give brutal one word verdict on Conservative Party’s immigration plans
A poll conducted by YouGov on behalf of Labour Together asked the public to describe Rishi Sunak's immigration policies in their own words as the Rwanda plan was ruled unlawful
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Suella Braverman facing calls to quit as she lays a wreath at Cenotaph
Labour blamed the Home Secretary for sowing “hatred and mistrust” and called on her to quit after she was blamed for violence on Armistice Day
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Labour demands 'full and immediate humanitarian pause' in Gaza fighting
Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy called for a "full and immediate humanitarian pause" in Israel's war on Hamas - but stopped short of demanding a ceasefire