Good Morning Britain viewers were less than impressed when a serious interview with Yvette Cooper switched to seeing her being quizzed on her home life with one of the show's hosts, Ed Balls. The former MP had been at the helm of the show from Monday to Wednesday this weekend alongside Susanna Reid.
However, on Thursday (January 26), the reins of the ITV news programme had been handed over to Adil Ray and Ranvir Singh. The pair were joined via video link by Cooper, who revealed Labour's plans to tackle people smuggling gangs at UK borders. It comes as reports show that 500 migrants arrived in the UK by boat on Wednesday (January 25) alone - and numbers could be set to rise.
The shadow home secretary said: "We have to go after the criminal gangs that are behind this. Criminal gangs are organising those boats, and making huge profits from those boats, and our analysis shows that they made around £180 million from putting people's lives at risk last year and that’s more than a hundredfold increase in the space of just two or three years.
