Sentences with phrase «shadow home secretary yvette»

For Labour, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the government's targets were «in tatters» and its policy was «a mess».

But the plan was foiled when shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper tabled a Labour amendment supporting the extension of civil partnerships as long as a consultation on the plans took place immediately rather than in five years.

This was echoed by the former shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper, who emphasised on Friday that immigration is «not what this campaign is about — Brexit will not make a difference».

• Supporters of Liz Kendall tried to arrange for her and then shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper to stand aside to give shadow health secretary Andy Burnham a clear run when it became apparent support for Corbyn was surging

Until Emily Thornberry's tweet came along and ruined Labour's week, the top story for the opposition was shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper's big speech on immigration.

«The government should not have left this legislation until the last minute before the summer,» shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said.

«The home secretary and prime minister are out of touch with how bad it is for police forces across the country,» shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said.

Following Ms May's statement to parliament today, shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said: «The Home Secretary claimed she did not authorise the release of her letter to Michael Gove accusing his department of a failure to act to the media or on the Home Office website.

Labour shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has accused Theresa May of breaking the ministerial code, and called on her to explain her conduct.

Former shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has accused Theresa May of shirking responsibility for the Windrush scandal, in a blistering attack in the Commons today.

No wonder public confidence in the government's handling of this issue has collapsed,» shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said.

Yesterday shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper told the Labour party conference in Manchester: «Once again it's one rule for the Cabinet, another for the plebs.

Miliband has reportedly set up a new unit to tackle the threat from Ukip and has told shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper that she now needs to «do more» on the issue.

«It's time the government realised the dangers of their cuts and re-opened the police spending review immediately,» shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said.

«The EU Commission are wrong to try to prevent member states having sensible checks like this as it will increase public concerns about migration and give member states an incentive to cut employment support for everyone, which is against everyone's interests in Britain and across Europe,» shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said.

«The party is on a sound and stable financial footing,» shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper told the Andrew Marr show.

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls is married to shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper.

The workplace, where you go to work, learn, live, and occasionally love, was in the spotlight this morning at LGBT charity Stonewall's annual Workplace Conference, as shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper gave a frank speech about the overwhelming need for «celebration of diversity» in the workplace.

At the annual Stonewall Workplace Conference this morning, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper gave a thoughtful speech championing diversity — which she admitted begins at home, in Parliament

The panel comprised Conservative and current Home Secretary, Theresa May, Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper, Lib Dem Norman Baker, UKIP's Steven Woolfe, and Simon Thomas from Plaid Cymru.

«She has refused to come to the House or do interviews for nearly two weeks,» shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said.

«If David Cameron is really serious about protecting our children he should stop blocking compulsory sex and relationship education in our schools which could teach all our children zero tolerance of violence in relationships and greater resilience against online abuse,» shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said.

Some way behind is shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper.

Former shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper attacked Farage for «exploiting the misery of the Syrian refugee crisis in the most dishonest and immoral way».

Read shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper's speech to the 2011 Labour party conference in Liverpool here.

Committee chair and former shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper told the witnesses that the abuse they described was «deeply un-British and should have no place in this country.»

«You have government ministers potentially voting against their own Queen's Speech,» shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper told BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show.

Her use of party politics while discussing the topic led to several attacks, not least of all from shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper, who launched a blistering attack on the programme.

But shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper told him he was «completely out of touch» as the pair clashed on the Today programme this morning.

Not exact matches

13:23 - I'm hearing that Yvette Cooper, shadow home secretary, will open in the phone - hacking debate, followed by Dominic Grieve, attorney general, for the government, and then probably Chris Bryant, the Labour MP and phone - hacking victim, who called for the debate.

However there is a feeling among some that Yvette Cooper has the strongest credentials, having impressed as shadow home secretary for four years under Ed Miliband.

Speaking on BBC Newsnight the shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, said there were too many low - skilled EU migrants coming to the country.

Labour's shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, said security services did require powers to get information to stop extremist acts, but said «strong powers need to be backed by strong checks and balances».

Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, has no such worries, but home office issues have not featured prominently in the campaign and she has had a low profile.

Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary and minister for women and equality, intervened as the archbishop of Wales complained that the government had put his church in an «enormously difficult position», which threatened to «severely curtail» its freedom to act according to its conscience.

Liz Kendall, the shadow Care Minister who is seen as the Blairite candidate, came second on 25 per cent, with Yvette Cooper, the shadow Home Secretary, on 20 per cent and Jeremy Corbyn, a left - wing backbencher, on 18 per cent.

Yvette Cooper is the only Labour figure who has made it into the coverage today in her capacity as shadow work and pensions secretary, which incidentally can't be doing her profile as a potential shadow chancellor any home.

13:17 - Yvette Cooper (Lab, shadow home secretary, never knowingly correct) gets up for the opposition, who obviously support the government agenda.

This would leave Yvette Cooper, the shadow Home Secretary, as the only «establishment» candidate not from the 2010 intake.

Ed Balls is confirmed as Shadow Chancellor; his wife Yvette Cooper takes his job as shadow home secretary; Douglas Alexander takes her former portfolio of shadow foreign secretary; Lima Byrne becomes shadow work and pensions secretary; Tessa Jowell to take on responsibilities shadowing the Cabinet Office, formerly held by Byrne.

The Clegg initiative by coincidence comes the day after Labour fully joined the debate for the first time when Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, called for a thorough overhaul of the way in which UK intelligence agencies are held to account.

4.40 pm: Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, is speaking now.

Andy Burnham labels calls from Yvette Cooper's team to step down «disappointing» and «quite strange», claiming that he is widely regarded as polling in second place ahead of the shadow home secretary.

The first big dividing lines of the Labour leadership contest opened up on Thursday when Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, refused to accept that Labour had spent too much prior to the 2007 banking crisis, making the economy more vulnerable when the crash came.

Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, described Cameron's plans to promote women as a «last - minute worry about voters».

He is likely to be replaced as shadow home secretary by his wife, the shadow foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper.

• Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, has partly blamed Theresa May for the disappearance of a terrrorist suspect.

The shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, received 59, the shadow minister for care, Liz Kendall, 41 and Corbyn, 36.

A Labour government will make it a criminal offence to use low - skilled European workers to undercut local workers and businesses, and change the rules so that more foreign national criminals are considered for deportation, the shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has said.

Yvette Cooper, the former shadow home secretary, said Labour must not be «paralysed from debating immigration reform either — or our tin ear to the concerns of the country will stop others listening to our case for helping refugees», while former shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves caused controversy on Tuesday by suggesting the UK could «explode» if concerns about immigration were ignored.