Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said she wants to see jailed MP Mike Amesbury resign or face a recall petition. The disgraced MP has been jailed for 10 weeks for punching a man after a row in the ...

Yvette Cooper has been an MP since 1997 and was a Cabinet minister when Labour was in government. The 52-year-old politician is now returning to Labour’s frontbench as shadow home secretary after Sir ...

Ms Cooper, MP for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford, was chief secretary to the Treasury from January 2008 to June 2009, and then secretary of state for work and pensions from June 2009 to May ...