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Yvette Cooper MP

Yvette Cooper MP

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

Labour will continue to take a lead on tackling violence against women and girls
Home affairs
By Yvette Cooper MP
Labour will continue to take a lead on tackling violence against women and girls
Everyone should be able to feel safe in our homes, on our streets and in our communities. All of us should be able to live in freedom from fear. Yet for too many women that is just not the case, and we should not stand for this.
Action, not warm words, is needed to stamp racism out of policing for once and for all
Home affairs
By Yvette Cooper MP
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.
The Government Must Take Stronger Action On Borders To Protect Us From New Covid Variants
Coronavirus
By Yvette Cooper MP
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.
Time to reclaim the internet
Home affairs
By Yvette Cooper MP
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.
Calling for back-up - defending police from Tory cuts
Home affairs
By Yvette Cooper MP
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.