Latest news and updates on Yvette Cooper - A long-standing Member of Parliament, Yvette Cooper was first elected as Labour MP for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley (then Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) in 1997. Having served in Gordon Brown's cabinet, she was made Home Secretary by new Prime Minister Keir Starmer in 2024.
‘On what planet did you think that in the middle of a Covid crisis, it was safe or sensible to put over 20 people in a dormitory so they were all sleeping together in the same room with the same air overnight each night?’