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Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper speaking during the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool. PIC: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

Safety of women and girls needs to be at the top of the agenda - Jayne Dowle

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper speaking during the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool.

Yvette Cooper: Too little has changed since Leeds women's safety marches

Yvette Cooper meets officers in Castleford

Yvette Cooper champions new policing hub to tackle crime in Castleford

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper speaking during the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool. PIC: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

Generations of women who face violence have been failed - Yvette Cooper

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer leaving Europol in The Hague, Netherlands, following their meeting to discuss how Labour would tackle Channel crossings. Picture date: Thursday September 14, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Labour. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Move to counter-terror policing model to tackle people smugglers, Starmer urges

Yvette Cooper MP

My Yorkshire: Yvette Cooper MP on exploring Yorkshire with husband Ed Balls

Bibby Stockholm accommodation barge at Portland Port in Dorset. (Photo credit: James Manning/PA Wire)

Labour would use barges and military bases to house migrants

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn came under crticism for his response to the Russian poisonings.

Criticism of Corbyn’s response to Russian poisonings misplaced - YP Letters

Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda has been ruled unlawful by the UK’s Court of Appeal. Credit: Tom Pilgrim/PA Wire

Government to appeal court ruling on unlawful Rwanda policy

Yvette Cooper is the Shadow Home Secretary. PIC: Hollie Adams/Getty Images

Home Secretary lacks plan to restore trust in policing - Yvette Cooper

Suella Braverman is the Home Secretary. PIC: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Braverman’s approach to immigration restores my faith in the Tories - YP Letters

Rishi Sunak speaks during a press conference following the launch of new legislation on migrant channel crossings at Downing Street

Sunak vows to send back migrants ‘within weeks’

The Homes For Ukraine scheme was set up in the aftermath of the invasion and has seen over 5,000 Ukrainians come to Yorkshire to live with sponsors.
Lilia Zhukova lights a candle at the vigil held at York Minster, to mark the first anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces.
24th February 2023.

Homes for Ukraine leadership is failing those desperate to flee, campaigners say

dangerous domestic abusers will be recorded on the violent and sex offender register under new government proposals (Photo: Adobe)

Domestic abusers could be added to violent and sex offender list

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File photo dated 22/12/2006 of graffiti daubed on 'Monkey Bridge' at Mere Green, Sutton Coldfield, in the West Midlands. Anti-social offenders would be forced to clear up litter and vandalism as part of "clean-up squads", under new Labour proposals. Issue date: Friday February 17, 2023. PA Photo. Labour's shadow justice secretary Steve Reed will use a speech on Friday to condemn the "scourge" of anti-social behaviour, warning that offenders need to face "consequences". The party is promising "clean-up squads" to tackle fly-tipping, which would see offenders tasked with clearing up dumped litter while also being hit with fixed penalty cleaning notices. See PA story POLITICS Labour AntiSocial. Photo credit should read: David Jones/PA Wire

Criminals will rebuild communities they've harmed, Labour announces

LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 19: A 'Stand up to Racism' campaigner outside the Royal Courts of Justice on December 19, 2022 in London, England. London's High Court has ruled that the government's Rwanda deportation scheme is lawful after the initial flight was halted at the last minute by the European Court Of Human Rights. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Charities could appeal High Court decision on 'lawful' Rwanda policy

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper responds after Home Secretary Suella Braverman made a statement to MPs in the House of Commons, London, following the deaths of four people after a migrant boat capsized in the English Channel. Picture date: Wednesday December 14, 2022.

Yvette Cooper slams Government's failure in preventing small boats tragedies

Mr Jordan is a diehard Leeds United fan.

Artist creates coats of arms to help mental health battle

Home Secretary Suella Braverman arrives in Downing Street, London, ahead of a Cabinet meeting. Picture date: Tuesday November 1, 2022.

Choose words very carefully, minister says after "invasion" remark

The Queen: Yorkshire MPs pay tribute in Westminster Hall vigil

Ballot boxes at the Wakefield by-election count.

Secret ballot anniversary is a reminder of our civic rights - Yvette Cooper
150 years ago this week the first ever secret ballot was held here in Yorkshire and a central tenet of modern British democracy was born.

Yvette Cooper has spoken out about Andrea Jenkyns' obscene gesture last week

Andrea Jenkyns obscene gesture 'sums up' the Conservative Party, says Labour MP

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Overturning Brexit not a vote winner for Labour - Yorkshire Post Letters

A planned deportation flight to Rwanda was cancelled following successful legal challenges.

British judges also blocked Rwanda flight deportations at 11th hour

Priti Patel. Picture: PA.

Priti Patel's Public Order Bill threatens right to peaceful protest - Yvette Coo...

Former Chancellor Ed Balls was the MP for Morley & Outwood until he lost his seat in the 2015 General Election

Ed Balls criticises Homes for Ukraine scheme after his family applied

People, pass through Medyka border crossing in Poland heading back into war-torn Ukraine on April 06, 2022 in Medyka, Poland. Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images.

Despite the criticism, Ukraine refugee schemes are generous - Richard Harrington

Home Secretary Priti Patel outside the Ukrainian embassy in London. Photo: Yui Mok/PA

Priti Patel's Home Office incompetence is failing Ukrainians - Yvette Cooper

Home Secretary Priti Patel meeting volunteers during her visit to the Ukrainian Social Club in Holland Park last weekend (PA)

Government announces online visa application for Ukrainian refugees

Handout photo issued by UK Parliament of Home Secretary Priti Patel making a statement on Ukraine.

More Ukrainian refugees to be able to settle in the UK Priti Patel announces

File photo dated 04/01/2022 of Home Secretary Priti Patel

More Ukrainian refugees to be able to settle in the UK Priti Patel announces

Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper's Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford seat is a Tory target at the next election.

How Yvette Cooper’s seat offers hope to red wall Tory MPs – Adam Hawksbee
WITH the Conservatives slumping in the polls, two shock by-election defeats in their true blue heartlands and a growing cost of living crisis, Westminster commentators are asking whether an emboldened Labour Party could pull off the impossible and win the next general election.

Yvette Cooper appeared on the BBC One’s Sunday Morning programme with Sophie Raworth

Policing facing 'perfect storm' and requires urgent reform, warns Yvette Cooper

Home Affairs Committee Yvette Cooper appearing on the BBC1 current affairs programme, The Andrew Marr Show (PA)

Improve standards and more police on beat to rebuilt trust, says Yvette Cooper

Yvette Cooper pictured in 2021 (PA)

Partygate scandals could damage trust in policing, Yvette Cooper suggests

New claims have been made by Dominic Cummings.

Dominic Cummings claims PM 'waved aside' concerns over Downing Street party

Former Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls (Getty)

Former Minister says family more aware of security in recent years

Former Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls

Ed Balls on life after Westminster

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Every plan to quarry on greenbelt land in North Yorkshire approved over 20 years

Rachel Reeves with her Christmas card design winner Maya. Picture: James Hardisty

Christmas on the cards for Yorkshire MPs as schoolchildren create designs

Kim Leadbeater, David Davis, Julian Smith and Yvette Cooper are among the Yorkshire MPs who have provided a Christmas message.

Yorkshire MPs share their Christmas 2021 messages after year of challenges

Diana Johnson

Yorkshire MP to focus on violence against women in new parliamentary role

Police made 468 arrests in October and more than 1,000 in May as part of separate national crackdowns on county lines (image: Getty Images)

This is how the government aims to tackle 2,000 drug gangs in new £300m plan

Just 30 MPs were present when the social care white paper was published this week.

Social care no-show by MPs diminishes their reputations – Tom Richmond

Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford MP Yvette Cooper has returned to the Labour front bench as Shadow Home Secretary.

Yvette Cooper’s return strengthens Labour – Bill Carmichael

Hull North MP Dame Diana Johnson is standing to chair Parliament's Home Affairs Select Committee.

Public interest demands strong select committees – The Yorkshire Post says

Yvette Cooper, pictured October 2021

Yorkshire MPs Yvette Cooper and Ed Miliband handed new jobs in Labour reshuffle

Patients in Yorkshire are struggling to dental appointments, Parliament has been told.

Yorkshire dental services 'in urgent crisis', Sajid Javid warned

The murder of Sarah Everard, whose family come from York, by a serving Metropolitan Police officer continues to prompt much soul-searching over policing - and the safety of women.

Sarah Everard inquiry needs more powers if police to reform and these ‘grave’ qu...

The nation continues to be rocked by the abduction and murder of sarah Everard by a serving Metropolitan Police officer.

Sarah Everard’s murder by PC Wayne Couzens must be national watershed – The York...

Sarah Everard, originally from York, died in March after being subjected to rape, kidnap and strangulation by Met police officer Wayne Couzens.
Photo: family handout

MP: Sarah Everard murder must led to review into police violence against women

Ed Balls. Picture : Nicky Johnson/PA.

Former chancellor and Yorkshire MP Ed Balls talks about his ‘midlife crisis’, hi...

Yvette Cooper, MP for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford, speaks during the debate on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

Yorkshire MPs 'deeply concerned' about crime bill restricting right to protest

What more can, and should, be done to combat retail crime? Senior MP Yvette Cooper poses the question.

Abuse of shop workers must end; here’s a plan of action – Yvette Cooper

Yvette Cooper, MP for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford has called on the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) to review contracts offered to security firm G4S after reports of sexual harassment by security guards to quarantining guests.

MP calls for investigation into sexual harassment at quarantine hotels

Poet Keiron Higgins reading at the Great Get Together event at the Piece Hall, Halifax

Hundreds at Halifax Piece Hall for Great Get Together inspired by Jo Cox

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps during a visit to Leeds in January last year.

What Yorkshire rail users expect from Great British Railways and Grant Shapps – ...

Yvette Cooper

Government too slow to shut borders in wake of Indian Covid-19 variant, says MP

There have been recent controversies involving both Boris Johnson and David Cameron, pictured together here in 2012. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Yorkshire deserves better than Tory sleaze and cronyism: Yvette Cooper

West Yorkshire MP Yvette Cooper, who chairs the Home Affairs Select Committee, asked Priti Patel what the replacement would be for previous "safe, legal" routes which no longer exist.

Where are safe, legal routes for asylum seekers, Yorkshire MPs ask Priti Patel