To the Labour party conference, where Starmer’s army is celebrating its first meet as a part of government in over 14 years. Labour frontbenchers are desperate to distract from their current woes — a freebie fiasco and leak inquiry over bad briefings, to name a few — and this morning it was Yvette Cooper’s turn to make headlines.
The Home Secretary took to the main stage in Liverpool to laud her party’s time in power so far — and tear into her adversaries. On the issue of the Southport riots, Cooper was quick to turn the guns on her political opponents. First remarking that the riots shouldn’t be allowed to ‘silence serious debate on immigration’, Cooper was quick to slam both the Tories and Reform UK as ‘right wing wreckers’. Oo er. The Home Secretary insisted:
[They are] undermining respect for the rule of law and trying to fracture the very bonds that keep communities safe.
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