Source is here: https://twitter.com/joe_thomas18/status/1479490552144007175?s=21
Can’t say I understand the strategy of linking a Hillsborough Law to a Police and Crime Bill that gives police greater powers. If anything those two things should be extremely far apart
This directly contradicts news that Thornberry apparently has the position. What a mess 🤷♀️
Source: https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1465381124348301318?t=1ryzOH8X--N75mWLq1xMFg&s=19
>I'm told Yvette Cooper has definitely been offered Shadow Home Secretary
>And hasn't turned it down as some suggested
If we are sharing old news articles about Yvette Cooper on immigration:
The text below is taken from an interview in the Guardian:
> On immigration, where the Tories have consistently sough to portray Labour as soft, Cooper says she believes the public are ready for a “calm, sensible conversation”. “What does a fair immigration system look like, that supports the economy, that allows people to fall in love across borders, to get married?” she said.
> Labour is not backing the government’s nationality and borders bill, which returns to parliament next week and includes measures Johnson has claimed will allow the Border Force to turn back people trying to reach England in small boats.
> Rather than criticise the bill as illiberal, Cooper said: “This legislation is just a sham, and they’re making a lot of promises, but actually all they’ve got is unworkable measures.”
> The home secretary, Priti Patel, has been touring Europe this week in an effort to agree a response to the growing number of desperate people risking their lives at sea in the hope of claiming asylum in the UK.
> Cooper echoes the approach of her predecessor Nick Thomas-Symonds by calling for the government to negotiate a post-Brexit successor to the Dublin agreement, which allows some asylum seekers to be returned to the first EU country in which they arrived, to help tackle the challenge of preventing so many people risking their lives by taking to the sea in flimsy vessels.
> “That included family reunion, that included safe legal routes, and it included safe returns as well,” she said.
> She points out that the government has returned just five asylum seekers in the past nine months, despite its tough rhetoric, compared with 289 last year when the UK was still bound by the Dublin agreement.
Very cool to see we've dived back into trying to outflank the Tories from the right on immigration. Not only is it awful morally, especially in a week where 27 people died while trying to cross the Channel due to lack of legal asylum routes, but its fucking awful politically too. Trying to call the Tory's bluff and say 'you claim to hate immigrants but you aren't actually demonstrating it' only drags the Overton Window to the right and gives the Tories the opportunity to actually act upon their ghoulish desires. The fact that so many centre-right 'progressives' think this tactic is such a clever move only highlights how detache
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