Yvette Cooper
Yvette Cooper is a British politician who has served as Foreign Secretary since September 2025, having previously served as Home Secretary from 2024 to 2025. A member of the Labour Party, Cooper has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley, previously Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford, since 1997.
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Stories...
Jun 5, 2026
Lean Right
The Home Secretary is under scrutiny as net migration figures remain high and small boat Channel crossings continue, undermining Labour's early tough talk on border control.
Conservatives contend that Cooper has no credible plan to cut migration, pointing to the scrapping of the Rwanda scheme without a viable replacement as evidence that Labour is soft on illegal entry.
Jun 5, 2026
Lean Right
Cooper as Home Secretary is facing intense scrutiny over Channel crossing numbers, which remain stubbornly high despite Labour's pledge to end small boat crossings through international co-operation.
Conservatives argue Cooper's rejection of the Rwanda deterrence policy and her reliance on vague 'returns agreements' amounts to a surrender on border security, with no credible enforcement mechanism in place.
Jun 5, 2026
Far Left
The Home Secretary's powers are under scrutiny after the cancellation of visas for leftist US commentators Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker, described in commentary as an illiberal use of executive speech-policing powers.
For the Green and radical left, Cooper's visa bans confirm that Labour's Home Office is weaponising border controls against political dissidents on the left, echoing a long authoritarian history of banning activists from Britain that stretches back to Stokely Carmichael in 1967.