News Labour MP Diana Johnson elected as home affairs select committee chair Diana Johnson has been elected as the chair of the home affairs select committee, replacing Yvette Cooper who… Elliot Chappell 15th December, 2021, 2:59 pm
News Who could replace Yvette Cooper as chair of the home affairs committee? Yvette Cooper has resigned as chair of the home affairs committee following her appointment to the opposition frontbench… Sienna Rodgers 2nd December, 2021, 12:01 pm
News Select committees: Cooper and Benn keep positions as Greenwood and Reeves win Yvette Cooper and Hilary Benn won their elections for influential select committees uncontested, while Rachel Reeves and Lilian… Emma Bean 13th July, 2017, 8:38 am
Comment 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… Yvette Cooper 23rd February, 2017, 3:00 pm
News Cooper and Umunna demand action from Rudd over “Islamophobic” Trump Yvette Cooper and Chuka Umunna have piled pressure on the home secretary over the Tories’ increasingly close relationship… Peter Edwards 1st February, 2017, 9:50 am
Comment Tackling anti-Semitism, drumming out online abuse and handling complaints – Alice Perry’s latest NEC report A special meeting of the NEC equalities committee took place on Monday to discuss tackling anti-Semitism and other… Alice Perry 14th December, 2016, 7:00 am
News Yvette Cooper launches committee probe on immigration with pledge to hold town hall meetings across Britain Yvette Cooper is to lead a group of MPs on a tour of Britain to better understand the… Emma Bean 8th December, 2016, 12:13 pm
News Labour MPs demand home secretary “come clean” over secret Orgreave files Diane Abbott, the shadow home secretary, and predecessor Yvette Cooper are demanding answers from the home secretary in… Emma Bean 21st November, 2016, 12:21 pm
Comment 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… Yvette Cooper 21st November, 2016, 11:52 am
Comment What we learnt from Benn and Cooper’s victories – and why it matters for the PLP I am not sure they were always this high-profile. In the world of Corbyn’s Labour, however, everything has… Peter Edwards 20th October, 2016, 6:57 pm