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them publishing a town manifesto in 2019 63 64 she is a member of labour friends of israel 65 she was again re elected at the 2019 general election with a decreased vote share of 37 9 and a decreased majority of 1 276 66 brexit edit main article european union withdrawal act 2019 during the brexit process cooper consistently fought against a no deal brexit tabling one of the main amendments in january 2019 others to table amendments were caroline spelman graham brady rachel reeves dominic grieve and ian blackford 67 in april cooper tabled a private members bill again with the intended effect of preventing a no deal brexit 68 the bill was voted to be discussed as an important bill using processes often used for issues of national security mps voted 312 to 311 in favour of allowing her bill to be fast tracked and it was made law on 8 april 2019 starmer shadow cabinet 2021 2024 edit main article starmer shadow cabinet cooper was reappointed as shadow home secretary on 29 november 2021 by keir starmer replacing nick thomas symonds in a shadow cabinet reshuffle following allegations that suella braverman had breached the ministerial code by sending secure information with her private email cooper asked for possible security implications to be investigated she wrote to simon case i am urging you and the home office to now urgently undertake such an investigation into possible security breaches as the public has a right to know that there are proper secure information procedures in place to cover the person who has been given charge of our national security 69 70 cooper said that it raised doubts about the prime minister s judgement she also added that people need to be able to trust the home secretary with highly sensitive information and national security 71 cooper said that the conservative party lacked ethics and adequate standards 72 home secretary 2024 2025 edit cooper with prime minister keir starmer at the 92nd interpol general assembly 4 november 2024 due to the 2023 review of westminster constituencies cooper s constituency of normanton pontefract and castleford was abolished and replaced with pontefract castleford and knottingley at the 2024 general election cooper was elected to parliament as mp for pontefract castleford and knottingley with 47 5 of the vote and a majority of 6 630 73 74 following labour s victory in the general election cooper was appointed home secretary by starmer in his government on 5 july 75 on 7 july after starmer confirmed that the rwanda asylum plan had been scrapped cooper announced that the border security command would be established in order to help reduce small boat crossings across the english channel 76 77 following the 2024 southport stabbings in which three young girls were killed cooper stated that she was concerned by the incident and described the emergency services response as courageous 78 cooper additionally visited southport the following morning to lay flowers and meet officials and community leaders 79 starmer also visited the same day and laid flowers at the scene and was heckled by some members of the public 80 cooper later condemned the riots across england and northern ireland following the stabbing after axel rudakubana s guilty plea on 20 january 2025 cooper announced a public inquiry stating that the victims families needed answers about what had happened leading up to the attack 81 this was followed by starmer s promise to overhaul terrorism laws to reflect the type of non ideological killings characterised by individuals like rudakubana stressing the threat from acts of extreme violence perpetrated by loners misfits young men in their bedroom accessing all manner of material online desperate for notoriety sometimes inspired by traditional terrorist groups but fixated on that extreme violence seemingly for its own sake 82 significant attention was drawn to the anti radicalisation prevent programme for failing to accept referrals of rudakubana on the basis of him lacking a terrorist ideology although an emergency review found that prevent had followed correct procedures on each referral cooper concluded that too much weight was placed on the absence of ideology in the programme cooper announced that there would be a review on the threshold at which prevent intervenes with senior lawyer david anderson being assigned by starmer as the independent prevent commissioner to perform the review 82 83 cooper with french interior minister bruno retailleau in february 2025 the new office of border security commander was established whose remit would be to lead the new command and its members the command was launched by cooper on 7 july 2024 84 85 the command would be funded by money previously earmarked for the rwanda plan and would be responsible for coordinating the activities of immigration enforcement mi5 the border force and the national crime agency in tackling smuggling gangs which facilitate illegal migrant crossings over the english channel 86 84 a team in the home office was tasked with setting out the remit of the command as well as its governance structure and its strategic direction 84 87 martin hewitt was appointed to the role of border security commander in september 2024 by the home secretary 86 cooper faced a significant backlash over her immigration crackdown with critics saying that her plans were a waste of taxpayer money lack detail and fail to recognise the dignity and humanity of migrants especially in the wake of recent racist riots that targeted hotels housing asylum seekers across the country with amnesty international accusing cooper of reheating the conservative government s rhetoric around border security and enver solomon of the refugee council stating that she was wasting taxpayers money on expanding detention places 88 cooper s border security asylum and immigration bill was criticised by fellow labour mps for retaining conservative era anti migrant legislation with sarah champion criticising the bill for disqualifying asylum seekers who cross the channel in small boats from claiming protection from modern slavery and nadia whittome stating the legislation must reverse powers to detain child refugees for up to 28 days 89 later in september 2024 she was likewise also accused of playing catch up to reform 90 after a trans rights protest in london she branded messages of trans solidarity on the statues of several influential figures including south african prime minister jan smuts disgraceful 91 in november 2024 cooper voted in favour of the terminally ill adults end of life bill which proposes to legalise assisted suicide 92 in may 2025 starmer launched a white paper on the topic of immigration with a speech including that the uk risked becoming an island of strangers and that high immigration had done incalculable damage to society 93 94 his language was criticised for its perceived echoes of enoch powell s rivers of blood speech 95 and in june starmer apologised for his island of strangers comment saying that the phrase wasn t right and i deeply regret using it 95 later cooper said she had been effectively excluded from launching the immigration white paper which was a home office policy by the prime minister s office who wanted it fronted by starmer saying i didn t see what was going to be said or what the announcement was that was the way that no 10 operated 96 on 23 june 2025 after a small group of palestine action people broke into raf brize norton and caused criminal damage to military planes cooper reported to parliament that the group was to be designated as a proscribed terrorist organisation 97 foreign secretary 2025 2026 edit further information list of international trips made by yvette cooper as foreign secretary cooper and marco rubio in december 2025 cooper greeting us president donald trump and first lady melania trump in september 2025 cooper was appointed foreign secretary on 5 september 2025 during the cabinet reshuffle which followed the resignation of deputy prime minister angela rayner 98 99 she became the first woman in british political history to have served as both home and foreign secretary 100 her first overseas visit as foreign secretary was a trip to ukraine during which she met with ukrainian foreign minister andrii sybiha and announced sanctions against companies involved in supporting the russian invasion 101 as foreign secretary cooper oversaw the british government s decision in september 2025 to recognise the state of palestine which she stated was borne of urgency and principle and which must be a spur not a substitute for urgent action towards a ceasefire 102 103 cooper and starmer meeting with prime ministers mette frederiksen dick schoof and secretary general mark rutte in october 2025 in december 2025 cooper publicly identified china as a national security threat due to its cyber attacks espionage and its support for russia in its war against ukraine 104 in december 2025 cooper condemned the horrific atrocities in el fasher sudan describing them as a scar on the conscience of the world her statements followed the fall of el fasher to the rapid support forces rsf in late october 2025 which led to reports of widespread massacres 105 in late 2025 cooper faced significant parliamentary and public pressure regarding allegations that the united arab emirates uae is supplying arms to the rsf in sudan she has avoided committing to an immediate arms embargo on the uae instead focusing on diplomatic pressure and humanitarian aid 106 107 in january 2026 following the capture of nicolas maduro by the united states in venezuela cooper spoke to her counterpart secretary of state marco rubio and later announced to the house of commons that she had reminded rubio of the country s obligation to international law 108 cooper with charles iii at shenandoah national park during the 2026 state visit in february and march 2026 the uk government refused to join the us uk strikes on iran which eventually culminated in the 2026 iran war in response from criticism from tony blair over the uk not joining the war cooper stated that there are some people in politics who think that we should always agree with the us whatever there are other people in politics who think we should never take action with the us again whatever the circumstances i don t think either of those positions is in the uk national interest she added that it was the responsibility of starmer to act in the uk national interest following criticism of starmer by us president donald trump 109 during the 2026 labour party leadership crisis on 21 june 2026 shortly after the victory of andy burnham in the makerfield by election cooper reportedly told starmer to resign as prime minister 110 cooper later endorsed 111 and then nominated burnham in the subsequent leadership election 112 in july 2026 after the announcement that the islamic revolutionary guards corp irgc would be proscribed cooper summoned the iranian ambassador to the uk ali mousavi to the foreign office she said that the intelligence services of iran had planned and conducted dangerous potentially lethal operations 113 114 health secretary 2026 present edit on 20 july 2026 andy burnham appointed cooper as secretary of state for health and social care succeeding james murray 115 she was succeeded as foreign secretary by ed miliband 116 117 political positions edit cooper with starmer and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy in september 2025 foreign affairs edit russia and ukraine edit cooper has condemned russia for its actions in the russo ukrainian war in 2025 she described the war as an illegal and unprovoked war of aggression which was an assault on the un charter 118 in november 2024 cooper criticised russian president vladimir putin for his threats to use weapons against nations whose own weapons were used to attack russia in an interview with sky news cooper stated that russia invaded a sovereign state and that putin had used an aggressive blustering tone throughout the conflict which she described as completely unacceptable 119 following russian attacks on kyiv in may 2026 cooper condemned the awful scenes and vowed to keep up pressure on russia 120 brexit edit cooper with new york city mayor zohran mamdani in 2026 cooper campaigned to remain in the european union eu in the 2016 brexit referendum 121 she argued that the leave campaign suggested that the leave campaign promised to both end free movement and stay in the single market cooper stated that if you want to change the rules you have to be in there you can t get reform if you stay on the outside and argued that a false promise was being given over the future border controls of britain 122 immigration and asylum edit during the 2015 leadership election in august cooper called for a moral approach to the european migrant crisis she criticised the government of david cameron for having repeatedly failed to take diplomatic action with france to assess the number of people camped out to cross she english channel who were refugees she also argued that britain does need to do more overall to take people particularly who are refugees from syria and from the humanitarian crisis in syria 123 in september 2015 cooper pressure cameron to do more to respond to the syrian humanitarian crisis stating that syria is the humanitarian catastrophe of our generation we cannot turn our backs she argued that if every city or county took ten families each then britain would be able to help nearly 10 000 people 124 in 2020 cooper tabled an amendment to an immigration bill ending freedom movement which sought to extend existing rules to allow unaccompanied child refugees to be reunited with relatives in the uk she argued that desperate young people have already lost their lives we should not turn our backs on them now we need to sustain those safe and legal routes 125 nato edit cooper with nato secretary general mark rutte in june 2026 cooper has been supportive of the north atlantic treaty organisation nato she was critical of jeremy corbyn s policy of withdrawing from nato 126 in 2015 she argued that it was not radical to support leaving the organisation but that the uk should stay in nato as internationalism was a core labour principle and said that she would always fight for it 127 in january 2026 cooper called for nato defence against russia in the arctic cooper argued that the region was the gateway for russia s northern fleet to be able to threaten the united kingdom to threaten western europe and norway to threaten the united states and canada she also called on nato to double down and to do what we ve done in other areas in order to really strengthen the security of the high north 128 in february 2026 cooper criticised reform and the green party for what she described as being soft on russia and weak on nato she argued that our national security depends on us having partnerships abroad that make us strong and suggested 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