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There's no taste of her own medicine here - Yvette faces MPs and it's a bit of a love-in
The Guardian
|June 04, 2025
What goes around doesn't always come around. When Yvette Cooper was chair of the home affairs select committee, she was a force of nature.
Tireless. Persistent. Forensic. A one-woman opposition.
Yvette pretty much did for Amber Rudd - or rather, helped Rudd do for herself - as home secretary. Sajid Javid was lucky to escape with a score draw. Priti Patel merely had confirmed what we all knew. That she was one of the worst home secretaries in living memory.
So you would have imagined that the current home affairs select committee would have wanted to live up to the reputation of its predecessor. To make an appearance before them something the home secretary would come to fear. Two hours of her life in which her work at the department would be gone through in fine detail. And found wanting.
This story is from the June 04, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
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