Cooper is on top of her brief, yet somehow failed to press home her advantage as she pointed out to Patel that many criminals are getting off scot free.
Whilst he may have struggled over the specifics of women and their genitalia, Starmer is conscious that Labour must square the voters on this issue.
Yvette Cooper says her party did tighten the rules when it was in power, and has called for action on non-dom tax avoidance.
Shadow home secretary says she does not “understand why Priti Patel is so failing to get a grip on this”.
Harry Potter’s creator is a natural rebel who likes nothing better than a good fight.
The Shadow Home Secretary says Russia should be in “no doubt” that it would face a united international response to an invasion.
The Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee says relaxing travel rules, “at a time when we’ve got so many new variants”, would be unwise.
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He would not conciliate the Liaison Committee by promising to meet it three times a year, let alone by holding an inquiry into Cummings.
One can conceive of Ministers seeking an all-party public front, and Labour objecting to responsibility with no power.
After the 1983 defeat, Labour’s electoral progress was slow. This time around the Party will face further decline without a bold change in direction.
Most voters will have what to them are more pressing reasons to reject Corbyn than anti-semitism. But none expose more fully why he must be stopped.
Briefing that Johnson will “lock up terrorists and throw away the key” is taking the voters for fools.