Yvette Cooper

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Leading A&E medics sound alarm over NHS winter pressures

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Health Secretary pledges action to end ‘corridor care’ for children in hospitals

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UK takes ‘different view’ to Trump on Russia sanctions, says minister

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Yvette Cooper warns NHS faces ‘more challenging’ winter than normal

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Archie Goodburn thanked as ministers announce plans to improve brain cancer care

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NHS waiting list continues to rise despite record levels of care over summer

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Cooper pledges public health approach to tackling ‘epidemic’ of domestic abuse

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Three babies could have been saved if police called sooner, Letby inquiry finds

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NHS under ‘relentless pressure’ as figures show impact of summer heatwaves

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Jeremy Clarkson and Stephen Fry urge Government to act on prostate cancer

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Corridor care figures remain above 3,000 a day for July amid NHS ‘summer surge’

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Palestine Action terror ban challenge to go to Supreme Court as 117 arrested

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Andy Burnham sets out desire to fix social care crisis

Composite of handout file photos issued UK Parliament of Prime Minister Andy Burham’s Cabinet appointments: (top row, left to right) Chancellor John Healey; Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood; Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband; Health Secretary Yvette Cooper; Education Secretary Lucy Powell; Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden; Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy; Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds; and Housing Secretary Angela Rayner. (second row, left to right) Minister for Women and Equalities Bridget Phillipson; Defence Secretary Wes Streeting; Chief Whip Anneliese Midgley; Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Chris Bryant; Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander; Welsh Secretary Stephen Kinnock; Transport Secrtary Heidi Alexander; Attorney General Ellie Reeves; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Louise Haigh. (third row, left to right) Justice Secretary Alex Norris; Environment Secretary Dame Angela Eagle; Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh; Chief Secrtary to the Treasury Emma Reynolds; Leader of the House of Lords Baroness Smith of Basildon; Leader of the House of Commons Sir Alan Campbell; minister of state across the Cabinet Office and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Kanishka Narayan; minister across both the Cabinet Office and Foreign Office Hamish Falconer ; and Matthew Pennycook minister in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Governmentplaceholder image

Who has Andy Burnham picked to be in his Cabinet?

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Andy Burnham to pledge to be ‘unashamedly Labour’ when he becomes party leader

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Who will be in Andy Burnham’s Cabinet?

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Trump backs down over threat to levy tolls on shipping in Strait of Hormuz

The British Government was against the imposition of charges, which critics had branded ‘economic extortion’

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Government bans Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

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Four Britons feared dead in Spanish wildfire

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‘Farage by-election disrespects the people of Clacton’, minister claims

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Cooper: World cannot wait for ‘AI Hiroshima’ before acting on safety concerns

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Retired priest, 84, arrested at Palestine Action protest

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Ministers leaving ‘no stone unturned’ to deport grooming gang leader, vows Murra...

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No 10 ‘boys club’ briefing culture will change under Andy Burnham – Lucy Powell

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Foreign Secretary condemns ‘deplorable’ attack on journalist ‘on behalf of Iran’

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Yvette Cooper plays friendly cricket match with exiled Afghan women’s team

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Mahmood in standoff with No 10 after call to sack junior minister

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Cabinet ministers back Burnham as he prepares to enter No 10 as early as July

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said she had spoken to the former mayor and he was ‘100% behind our unwavering support for Ukraine’.

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More than 100 arrested at protest outside court amid Palestine Action ruling

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Court of Appeal’s Palestine Action ruling paves way for scores of criminal cases

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Palestine Action terror ban was lawful, Court of Appeal rules

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Starmer says Strait of Hormuz must stay open after Iran-US peace deal announced

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Iran and Israel halt strikes after Trump tells both sides to ‘stop shooting’

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Starmer calls for return to ceasefire as Iran-Israel clashes push up oil price

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Israel strikes Iran despite calls for restraint from UK and US

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Cooper condemns ‘desperate’ Russian sanctions on UK schoolboy and journalists

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‘Distressing’ case of Briton jailed in India needs swift resolution, says Cooper

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Yvette Cooper rejects Harriet Harman’s call for disappearing messages ban

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Cooper invites Indian PM Modi to Commonwealth Games during talks in Delhi

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Nato summit most important in its history, says Rubio amid US force cutbacks

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Briton jailed in India tells Foreign Secretary he is ‘stuck in broken country’

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Former MI6 chief Sir Alex Younger dies aged 62

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Yvette Cooper vows to continue raising Jimmy Lai case with Chinese government

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Yvette Cooper defends UK and France’s Strait of Hormuz plan for after Iran war

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Starmer to face PMQs after Mandelson files release lay bare splits in Government

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Starmer defends disappearing WhatsApp messages use after Mandelson files release

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Peter Mandelson should never have been appointed, Yvette Cooper says

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Foreign Secretary arrives in Beijing for talks on global security

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Missile attacks on Ukraine demonstrate Putin’s ‘weakness’, Cooper says

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Russia becoming ‘more reckless’ as Moscow weakened by war – Yvette Cooper

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Nato allies upset US by ‘going into hiding’ during Iran war – Marco Rubio

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Top Israeli diplomat in UK summoned over ‘inflammatory’ video of detainees

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UK help in Strait of Hormuz ‘appreciated at appropriate time’ – US commander

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Cooper warns Hormuz blockade risks sending world ‘sleepwalking into food crisis’

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UK to deploy mine hunters, drone boats and jets for Strait of Hormuz mission

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Transatlantic talks on Strait of Hormuz ahead of summit on defensive mission

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Army parachutes team on to Tristan da Cunha to support hantavirus response

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