Yvette Cooper MP, Labour's Chief Secretary to the Treasury, responding to David Cameron's speech at Conservative Party Conference, said: "David Cameron always makes a smooth and polished speech, but where was the substance? "Cameron says he is a man with a plan. But all we got was warm words and easy populism. Where were the credible alternatives? "In the last few weeks the world has cha...

Yvette Cooper MP, Labour's Chief Secretary to the Treasury, responding to David Cameron's speech at the London School of Economics today, said: "David Cameron has confirmed the Conservatives would do nothing to boost the economy right now. "The Tories would turn their backs on families and businesses just when they need real help to get through tough times. "David Cameron has shown he wo...

Yvette Cooper MP, Labour’s Work and Pensions Secretary responding to David Cameron’s hypocrisy on a recent visit to Liverpool said: “The barefaced cheek of David Cameron is breathtaking. “David Cameron has opposed every single penny of the funding for the Future Jobs Fund, and his party has pledged to abolish it. Yet now he turns up telling young people that he thinks it is...

Yvette Cooper MP, Labour’s Work and Pensions Secretary, speaking ahead of David Cameron’s Hugo Young lecture, criticised the Conservatives' policies as unworkable: "The idea that things like Sure Start, the NHS or tax credits are killing kindness is a crazy sign of how Thatcherite David Cameron really is. It insults the millions of families, neighbours and community groups across ...

Stephen Timms MP, Labour's Treasury Minister, responding to David Cameron's comments in today's Telegraph, said: "Unless the Conservatives can explain how they will pay for this commitment, it remains an empty promise - for all Cameron's warm words he opposed Labour's measures to give real help now to pensioners. The fact remains the Tories would do nothing to help familie...

Yvette Cooper MP, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary, in response to David Cameron’s speech today, said:

Responding to David Cameron's interview in today's Sunday Telegraph, Yvette Cooper, Labour's Shadow Home Secretary said:

Yvette Cooper MP, Labour's Work and Pensions Secretary, speaking ahead of David Cameron's Hugo Young lecture, criticised the Conservatives' policies as unworkable: "The idea that things like Sure Start, the NHS or tax credits are killing kindness is a crazy sign of how Thatcherite David Cameron really is. It insults the millions of families, neighbours and community groups across th...

Labour has a problem. Whenever it launches a premeditated attack on David Cameron it never quite seems to work. Remember the Chameleon, or the Toff attack? They both backfired. Today Yvette Cooper launched a new attack on "Cameronomics". She wrote a piece in The Guardian, which the paper then puffed in its news pages. I always enjoy Yvette Cooper's TV appearances as I can feel the extra Conse...

Yvette Cooper says two top policemen have resigned over links to Neil Wallis but David Cameron has not even apologised for employing Andy Coulson.