The Shadow Home Secretary responds to a demand Rayner made that Boris Johnson should resign as he was under police investigation.
The Shadow Home Secretary lacks the tabloid news sense needed to decide which of the Government’s many failings to highlight.
Mike Freer’s announcement is a significant milestone. As he prepares to leave the room, Labour is knocking on the door. We have little sense of how it would rearrange the furniture.
And Tomlinson, Minister since last Thursday for Illegal Migration, demonstrates fighting spirit by seeing off Cooper.
There were gleams of hope for the Government in the conciliatory tone of the first Conservative contributors to the debate.
What communities need from their police forces would be out in favour of top-down targets and threats of further action from the centre if chiefs don’t perform to the Labour mandate.
The Prime Minister looked relieved to have appointed a Home Secretary who is not furious with him.
The Shadow Home Secretary suggests “the Government made it harder for the police to do their jobs” at Saturday’s Armistice Day events.
Starmer’s Shadow Cabinet ministers have repeatedly lent support to activist groups that seek to reduce police powers to crack down on those very same gun-toting gangs.
Cooper also claims that introducing “Respect Orders” would give stronger powers to stop anti social behaviour.
The Shadow Home Secretary was referring to recent reports surrounding Suella Braverman.
The Cabinet Office, standing in for the new Home Secretary, had to answer the charge that “borders, security, policing are too important for this kind of instability”.
As the Labour leader visits Dublin and Belfast, he shrinks from disclosing how he would solve the present difficulties.
It’s best thought of as a contagion that spreads across the divide between parties and factions.
We need action. And we need ministers who understand how to exercise power. They need to use that power to take decisions and make sure they are implemented.