Yvette Cooper MP

Labour MP for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford and chair of the Home Affairs Committee

30 Sep 2021 Home affairs

Action, not warm words, is needed to stamp racism out of policing for once and for all

Nearly four decades on from Stephen Lawrence’s racist murder, the police and government need to deliver urgent change so that community confidence and the long-standing principle of fairness in policing are not permanently undermined.

01 Jul 2021 Home affairs

MPs Call For Six-Month Limit On Domestic Abuse Assault Prosecutions To Be Scrapped

A cross-party group of MPs has proposed an amendment to the government’s policing bill which would give domestic abuse victims more time to bring assault charges against their abusers.

20 Apr 2021 Transport

Border Guards Don’t Know How Many Fake Covid Test Certificates Are Used To Get Into UK

The number of people entering the UK with a fake negative Covid test is “inherently unknowable” and the current immigration system is “based on trust”, say border staff.

24 Mar 2021 Coronavirus

Boris Johnson Warns France May Go On Travel “Red List” To Prevent Covid Variants Arriving Across The Channel

Boris Johnson has admitted that putting France on the "red list" for travel was "something that we will have to look at" to prevent importing new Covid variants.

08 Mar 2021 Coronavirus

Home Office Housed Asylum Seekers In “Filthy, Impoverished And Unsafe” Barracks During Pandemic

A highly critical report into the use of “filthy” army barracks to house asylum seekers during the Covid-19 pandemic is “damning criticism of the leadership and culture of the Home Office”, according to Yvette Cooper.

24 Feb 2021 Coronavirus

Priti Patel Blames “Mingling” Asylum Seekers For Covid Outbreak At Napier Army Barracks

The Home Office has revealed that 178 asylum seekers caught coronavirus last month while being held at an army barracks in Kent in a dramatic Commons committee hearing this morning.

04 Feb 2021 Coronavirus

The Government Must Take Stronger Action On Borders To Protect Us From New Covid Variants

The government’s Covid border policy isn’t working. Rightly ministers said they wanted to prevent the new South Africa variant taking hold in the UK and threatening to undermine our vaccine programme.

14 Jan 2021 Coronavirus

Yvette Cooper Calls Government A “Chaotic Mess” Over Delay In Demanding A Negative Covid Test At The UK Border

Yvette Cooper has said that hold-ups on the requirement for a negative Covid test before being admitted into the UK shows the government has “never had a proper effective system in place.”

05 Aug 2020 Coronavirus

Coronavirus: Failure to toughen border measures made pandemic 'much worse' for UK, MPs say

A series of "critical errors" in the Government's approach to travellers entering the UK made the coronavirus pandemic much worse, a cross-party group of MPs has said.

15 Jul 2020 Coronavirus

Priti Patel says it was ‘absolutely right’ to wait until June to bring in coronavirus quarantine in committee clash with Yvette Cooper

Priti Patel has said it was “absolutely right” for the Government to wait until June to bring in quarantine measures for all international arrivals to the UK.

30 Jun 2020 Home affairs

Boris Johnson under mounting pressure to protect child refugees as Immigration Bill rebellion grows

Boris Johnson is under increasing pressure to guarantee the rights of child refugees, as support for cross-party amendments to the government's Immigration Bill grows.

09 Jun 2020 Home affairs

Domestic abuse survivors could be given salary advances as government launches workplace help review

Domestic abuse victims “in real financial hardship” could be given emergency early access to their salary under government plans to offer them more support at work.

22 May 2020 Coronavirus

WATCH: Sunak's recession warning; Johnson's track and trace pledge and MPs' fears over 'unsafe' return: catch up on the week in Parliament

Catch up on the week in Parliament with our three-minute round-up

28 Apr 2020 Coronavirus

Committee chairs protest Government plans to "undermine" scrutiny

Influential backbenchers have tabled an amendment to try to prevent the Government installing its own choice as chair of the powerful Liaison Committee

27 Apr 2020 Coronavirus

Surge in coronavirus domestic abuse cases needs ‘urgent’ attention of Cobra, MPs tell Priti Patel

Ministers are being urged to ramp up their support for victims of domestic abuse amid a surge in cases during the coronavirus lockdown.

09 Apr 2020 Coronavirus

Priti Patel in furious row with Yvette Cooper over attempts to quiz her on Home Office's coronavirus response

A furious row has erupted beween Priti Patel and Yvette Cooper over claims the Home Secretary has refused to appear before MPs to be quizzed on her department’s response to the coronavirus outbreak.

26 May 2016 Home affairs

Time to reclaim the internet

The former shadow home secretary calls for a change in attitudes to online abuse and intimidation as she calls on people to #reclaimtheinternet.

10 Feb 2015 Home affairs

Calling for back-up - defending police from Tory cuts

With violent crime continuing to rise, Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says Theresa May must stop cutting police jobs.