Privately, ministers acknowledge that successfully tackling irregular, illegal migration is absolutely key to how competent ...

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has signed a landmark agreement with Iraq to combat people smuggling and strengthen border ...

It took around eight-and-a-half months for migrant crossings to top 20,000 after Mr Sunak became prime minister and this ...

British crime fighters are to be stationed in Iraq under a new agreement to target the heart of the Channel people-smuggling ...

Yvette Cooper took part in a three-day visit to the country this week. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper was the first UK Government secretary of state to visit Iraq since 2021 (Jordan Pettitt/PA ...

Yvette Cooper made the “world-first security” agreement with Federal Government of Iraq interior minister Abdulameer Al-Shimmeri during a three-day visit to Baghdad and Erbil this week ...

Ed Balls revealed he once bought his wife, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, a size 16 dress for Christmas. The former Labour Cabinet minister, 57, left co-presenter Susanna Reid in stitches ...

Last week Home Office minister Dame Angela Eagle said that asylum hotel use had risen since Labour entered government.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper was the first UK Government secretary of state to visit Iraq since 2021 (Jordan Pettitt/PA) The Home Secretary has signed a “landmark” deal with Iraq to crack down ...

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and justice minister Alex Davies-Jones were among the attendees at the round-table discussion. Labour pledged in its manifesto to introduce a new offence for spiking ...