Rules governing police strip-searches of children and the vetting procedures for new officers will be tightened under a Labour government, Yvette Cooper has promised, as the party sought to attack the Conservatives’ record on crime.
In an annual conference speech on Tuesday that outlined plans to overhaul immigration policies in place under the Conservatives, the shadow home secretary said she would drop the “deeply damaging, extortionately expensive, unworkable and unethical Rwanda plan”.
