The Latest Breaking News from Yvette Cooper

All the victims of Southport stabbing attack named as devastated families pay tribute

Relatives pay tribute to ‘princess’ who died from her injuries after attack at dance class

The Independent UK · Jul 30, 2024

Watch: Home secretary visits Southport stabbing attack scene as six children in critical condition

Watch as home secretary Yvette Cooper visited the scene of a stabbing attack in Southport on Tuesday, 30 July, as six children remain in critical condition.

The Independent UK · Jul 30, 2024

'Young children' among those stabbed in 'major incident' in Southport

YOUNG children are said to be among at least eight people stabbed in scenes one witness described as like a “horror movie”.

The National (Scotland) · Jul 29, 2024

Manchester Airport: Ex-police chief warns of ‘summer of discontent’ over race failings

Exclusive: ‘I cannot discount the possibility that people are going to get more frustrated and take matters into their own hands,’ says former Met Police chief Leroy Logan

The Independent UK · Jul 25, 2024

Dozens of migrants returned to Vietnam and Timor-Leste as UK people-smuggling gang sentenced

Siblings Natalie and Alan Sirrell, Casey Dennis Loughnane, and Charlotte Smyth have been sentenced after a hearing at Canterbury Crown Court

Evening Standard · Jul 25, 2024

Rwanda scheme charter flight used to deport migrants to Vietnam and Timor-Leste

Home secretary Yvette Cooper told MPs she was replacing flight planning for Rwanda with deportation flights to other countries

The Independent UK · Jul 25, 2024

Knife crime offences rise and shoplifting reaches 20-year high in latest police figures

Home secretary blames the figures on ‘the disgraceful dereliction of the last Tory government’

The Independent UK · Jul 24, 2024

Tory leadership contender James Cleverly denies calling Rwanda scheme 'batshit'

Mr Cleverly claims he has ‘never described the Rwanda policy using that word’

Evening Standard · Jul 24, 2024

UK's scrapped Rwanda migrant plan a 'shocking waste' of $904 million in public funds, minister says

The U_K_'s new home secretary says a scrapped plan by former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to send some migrants on a one-way trip to Rwanda was the “most shocking waste of taxpayer money I have ever seen."

The Independent UK · Jul 22, 2024

Yvette Cooper could abandon law that criminalised peaceful protests

Civil group Liberty has adjourned legal hearing over contentious legislation to allow talks with ministers to open

The Guardian - UK · Jul 22, 2024