The Home Secretary has had to disown a report on extremism she herself commissioned - and it's given ammunition to Labour's enemies
The Home Secretary has had to disown a report on extremism she herself commissioned - and it's given ammunition to Labour's enemiesHome Secretary Yvette Cooper, right, and Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood listen as Keir Starmer speaks following the guilty plea of Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana I remember Jack Straw, who held the role in the first years of the Blair government, telling me that the jeopardy of one of the top positions in Cabinet was that “at any given time, some...
Cooper’s controlled demeanour and ability to absorb large quantities of information have so far preserved her from exposure to firefights under Keir Starmer. Yet she has now had to disown the sweeping findings of a report she herself commissioned – having had the final say over who drew it up.
It turned into a long “and another thing” list of opinions and beliefs – though the report also mentioned left-wing and environmental extremism, it was not that hard to see which political foes were being pointed at here. It was, to use the technical term, an awful lot of too much, all at once. They do believe there are many forms of extremism – not just two poles of it. And they do believe that in many areas the debate is being driven rightwards at dangerous speed. The tension lies in deciding what matters most, and how hard to clamp down on it.
She has enough trouble with the wavering “non-hate-crime” borderline areas where police are confused as to whether their job is to step in and issue advice or cautions, or to stay well out of raucous arguments between private citizens. Her career since, as chief secretary to the Treasury and work and pensions secretary, with a half-hearted run at the leadership in 2015, makes Cooper one of the most seasoned figures around Starmer, though in fact he hesitated in promoting her at first, wary of challenges to his then shaky leadership.
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