Yvette Cooper, shadow home secretary, says party could only promise things it can afford as report says benefit caps cause ‘extreme hardship’
Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, was also asked about Keir Starmer’s comments on the two-child benefit cap on ITV’s Good Morning Britain. She firmly rejected the claim that Starmer’s decision to say he would keep the cap meant Labour were the same as the Tories. She said:
I strongly do think there is a massive difference between Labour and the Tories, who have been in power for 13 years and left us with a country that just feels broken, where everything’s gone backwards, everyone is worse off. Labour is setting out an alternative course.
The Bibby Stockholm had been due in Portland a month ago, despite resistance from the local council and Tory MP Richard Drax.
But work on the barge had been delayed and it was only this morning that tugs began towing the vessel out of Falmouth harbour.
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