Read Health Secretary Yvette Cooper’s conference speech in full
Health Secretary Yvette Cooper addressed delegates in Liverpool on the last day of Labour Party conference - read her speech in full.
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Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper’s address to Labour Party conference in full
The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom, Yvette Cooper, speech in full at Labour Conference
Jack Dromey brought people together: he was a giant of Labour politics
Jack Dromey had a wonderful way of making you feel that everything was going to be alright. Whatever mountains we had to climb, whatever the slings and arrows along the way, there was something in Jack’s combination of great warmth, deep…
The Tories are still in government, if not in power – Yvette Cooper’s speech to Fabian’s summer conference
This is the full text of the speech that Yvette Cooper gave to today's Fabian's summer conference. Thank you Andy for inviting me to speak to you today. Britain’s oldest political think tank at the forefront of the future fight for social…
Yvette Cooper: The party of workers’ rights? Just look at Theresa May’s record
Who do the Tories think they are kidding? The idea that their party can ever be relied upon to protect workers’ rights is a joke. One look at Theresa May's own personal record shows why you can't believe a word they say when they claim to…
Yvette Cooper: We are told a payment was made to a suicide bomber – so what happened to the money?
This is the full test of the urgent question tabled by Yvette Cooper, chair of the home affairs select committee, following claims the government made a £1m payment to an extremist who became a suicide bomber. It has been reported that…
Yvette Cooper: Tory closure of the Dubs scheme for child refugees is shameful
This is the speech given by former shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper when she asked an urgent question in the Commons on the Tories' decision to close the Dubs scheme for child refugees. Last week the Prime Minister said: “On refugees…
Cooper: Home secretary must cough up 30 Orgreave files after inquiry snub
Yvette Cooper, chair of the home affairs select committee, yesterday published her letter to home secretary Amber Rudd demanding answers over the content of 30 mysterious government files related to the Battle of Ogreave. Last month Rudd…
“Calais should be a scar on the conscience of both France and Britain” – Cooper speech on refugees debate
This is the full text of the speech given by Yvette Cooper at Labour conference on Wednesday. Think on two children. Aged ten and nine. Primary school children by the side of a busy road. A ten year old who’s father was killed when…
Yvette Cooper: Both Eagle and Smith would be good leaders – but only one should go for it
Don't believe Theresa May when she says she won't call an election this year. I've shadowed this new Prime Minister for many years and I know how she works. Those who think she is too risk averse are misjudging her – she does take risks…
Europe’s Governments have turned their backs on those drowning in the Mediterranean
Thousands are drowning off Europe's shores. Yet Europe's Governments have turned their backs. Last year EU leaders from across the continent - including our own - quietly abandoned their humanitarian obligations and shut down search and…
We are much stronger when we stand together
There is strength in a union. There is solidarity in a union. I hope this Thursday we remain united - hands clasped in the most successful union our world has ever seen. Coalfield communities across Scotland and Yorkshire stood side-by-side…