Yvette Cooper

Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips has faced criticism over the Government's approach to local grooming gang inquiries. Picture: Joe Giddens/PA Wire

Labour has shifted the goalposts on grooming gangs inquiries

Yvette Cooper

'Do you still want me?' - grooming gang expert asks Government

Sir Jake Berry pictured in 2022. PIC: Bruce Rollinson

Government cannot afford to ignore levelling up - Jayne Dowle

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, from a Border Force vessel following a small boat incident in the Channel. Picture date: Monday March 10th 2025. PA

Prime Minister is right to get tough on boat crossings

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper. Credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Exclusive People smugglers 'have faced far too little enforcement', Cooper says

Small boats and outboard motors thought to be used by migrants crossing the Channel. PIC: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

We need to tackle the smuggler gangs - Yvette Cooper

Marsden Moor fire of April 2021

Wildfires 'inevitable' as Government urged to avoid 'Los Angeles-style tragedy'

Reclaim The Night Leeds will protest march later this month to step up its campaign for women's safety.

Exclusive Yvette Cooper says 'too little has changed' since Reclaim the Night

Yvette Cooper MP Celebrating Play and Playwork at The Addy(The Old Quarry Adventure Playground

Yorkshire embraces children's right to play: How the county supports families an...

The new study by UK in a Changing Europe (UKICE) has found that the government’s long-promised reforms of retained European law after Brexit have put “style over substance”. Credit: Mark Hall/Adobe

Exclusive Two-thirds in Yorkshire back EU youth mobility scheme EU - YouGov poll

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Policing Minister pledges action on 'whole spectrum of criminality'

Keighley and Ilkley MP Robbie Moore and child sexual abuse solicitor David Greenwood hand their letter into the Home Office. Credit: Robbie Moore

Solicitor: Bradford grooming gangs could 'eclipse Rotherham horrors'

Sarah Champion MP

Campaigners hail end of child sexual abuse compensation time limit

Andrew Gilruth is the chief executive of the Moorland Association.

Restrictions on vegetation management need to be reversed - Andrew Gilruth

Imagine if I set up a kerbside petrol station in Leeds city centre, with hundreds of big coke bottles full of fuel? I would be surrounded by blue flashing lights in minutes. There would be zero tolerance for having such a huge quantity of fuel which a simple spark could turn into a horrific conflagration.

Andrew Gilruth

Keighley and Ilkley MP Robbie Moore. Credit: Robbie Moore

MP writes to Attorney General urging review of grooming gang sentences

Alexis Jay OBE on August 26th 2014 at Rotherham New York Stadium. She led an independent investigation into child abuse in Rotherham, South Yorkshire between 1997 and 2007, finding that at least 1,400 children had been victims of abuse.

Prof Alexis Jay says Tory response to child abuse inquiry was 'awful'

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer delivers a statement at 10 Downing Street in London on the public inquiry into the Southport attacks. Credit: Henry Nicholls/PA Wire

Starmer says Southport murders are 'a line in the sand for Britain'

Alexis Jay OBE on August 26th 2014 at Rotherham New York Stadium. She led an independent investigation into child abuse in Rotherham, South Yorkshire between 1997 and 2007, finding that at least 1,400 children had been victims of abuse.

Long read: how decades-long grooming gang scandal hit headlines again

Exclusive Rotherham grooming victim says new inquiry must probe wider system

Pontefract Hospital

Pontefract maternity ward closure: Health chiefs and councillors set to discuss

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Exclusive Government reveals how it will tackle scourge of nuisance behaviour

Reform would win 17 seats in Yorkshire, mega-poll suggests

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper during a visit to West Yorkshire Police's Halifax Police Station

Yvette Cooper thanks police for 'hard work' over Christmas

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, from a Border Force vessel following a small boat incident in the Channel. PIC: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

How we will fix broken immigration and asylum systems - Yvette Cooper

A scene from the Battle of Orgreave.

Starmer considering ‘next steps’ for truth over Battle of Orgreave

Sir Keir Starmer has said that the Government is considering “the next steps” to uncover the truth about the policing at the Battle of Orgreave.

Ralph Blackburn

From left, Brunswick PACT chairman Brian Roberts, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and policing minister Dame Diana Johnson at the Home Office discussing the NationalWorld campaign Silent Crime on November 21, 2024

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper pledges action on Silent Crime

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper arrives in Downing Street, London, for a Cabinet meeting. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

The outsourcing of crime prevention to the public is not working - Ismail Mulla

A scene from the Battle of Orgreave.

Battle of Orgreave: Inquiry into clashes with police getting closer

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper arriving in Downing Street, London. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

High time that the Government cracked down on retail crime - The YP says

The Grand Hotel, Scarborough

Government refuses to give timeline on ending use of asylum hotels

The House of Lords Chamber during the State Opening of Parliament. PIC: Henry Nicholls/PA Wire

Why Labour must see through House of Lords reforms - Yorkshire Post Letters

Blackpool's Metropole Hotel, which houses asylum-seekers, became a focus of attention for Right Wing priotests in August

Government should devolve asylum accommodation to tackle hotel use

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Silent Crime: Violence against shop workers 'demands action now'

Jess Phillips MP speaking at The Rally Against Violence Towards Women and Girls at Labour conference.

Minister says stopping VAWG should be everyone’s “core business”

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper delivers her speech during the Labour Party Conference, at the ACC Liverpool. Picture date: Tuesday September 24, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Labour. Photo credit should read: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

"Serious debate" about immigration should not be 'silenced' by rioters

Liverpool fans hold up banners in tribute to the 97 victims of the Hillsborough disaster. Credit: Peter Byrne/PA Wire.

Hillsborough 'victims' families waited 23 years for post-mortem results'

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper at the National Crime Agency (NCA) headquarters in London. Credit: Benjamin Cremel/PA Wire

Yvette Cooper says officers have made 'significant seizures' of smugglers' boats

Pontefract Hospital

Pontefract birth centre: Fresh public consultation over closure

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper leaves Downing Street. PIC: James Manning/PA Wire

Avoid burdening police forces with investigating thought crimes - Andrew Vine

It is not ‘woke’ to want to do better for our young people - Christa Ackroyd

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper during a visit to Lewisham Police Station in south London. Picture: Jeff Moore/PA Wire

Yvette Cooper's new border force scheme won't stop the boats: Letters

A lone banner carries pickets' taunts at mounted police outside Orgreave coking plant in June 1984.

MP urges Government to open inquiry into battle of Orgreave

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper lays flowers near the scene on a knife attack in Hart Street, Southport. PIC: James Speakman/PA Wire

Southport stabbings show the need for conversation on knife crime - Jayne Dowle

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper outside BBC Broadcasting House in London. PIC: Lucy North/PA Wire

Solving the migrant crisis is going to require hard graft - Yvette Cooper

We must welcome the announcement by Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, that car washes will be targeted by immigration officers as they step up enforcement action over the summer, says Greg Wright (Photo by Jeff Moore/PA Wire)

Why it’s time to clean up illegal car washes which cause misery: Greg Wright

Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Leader of the Opposition Rishi Sunak walking through the Member's Lobby of the Houses of Parliament in London to the House of Lords to hear the King's Speech during the State Opening of Parliament. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Yorkshire has a strong voice at the heart of the new government - David Blunkett

More than 2,000 residents have signed a petition opposed to plans to build 400 houses on farmland in Altofts

Village 'becoming a concrete jungle' as 400 new homes set to be approved

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper

Battle of Orgreave: Labour election victory could lead to a full investigation

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during his visit to The Drewe Arms Community Pub, Exeter, Devon, while on the General Election campaign trail. PIC: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

The Tories have shown that they lack integrity - YP Letters

Wakefield Council and police have promised to clampdown on drivers entering a pedestrianised area in Pontefract.

Action promised over ‘hazard’ caused by faulty town centre traffic bollards

Labour targets remaining Tory vote as Conservatives face electoral wipe-out

The old Kellingley Social Club building, in Knottingley.

New plans to be revealed for £10m revamp of former social club

Yvette Cooper MP presented a petition to the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust at the time of the temporary closure of the birthing unit in Pontefract.

Health chiefs ordered to rethink 'shameful' plan to shut Yorkshire birthing unit

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