Angela Eagle: we don’t know how many undocumented migrants there are

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper admits relations with China are ‘a complex arrangement’

An alleged ‘Chinese spy’ with links to Prince Andrew, who also met David Cameron and Theresa May, has been banned from entering the UK on national security grounds. On the BBC this morning, Laura Kuenssberg asked Home Secretary Yvette Cooper if the threat of sabotage and espionage is becoming more serious. Cooper admitted that the challenges around national security are more complex, with the prevalence of cyber attacks and the use of ‘criminal proxies’. The Home Secretary said the UK would ‘continue to take a very strong approach to our national security’, but admitted that the necessity of ‘economic cooperation’ meant that the UK’s relationship with China was complicated.

Yvette Cooper: UK has ‘a moral responsibility to go after those gangs’ 

In order to tackle illegal migration, Labour has pledged to destroy the people smuggling gangs that organise boat crossings. On the BBC this morning, Laura Kuenssberg asked Yvette Cooper if this policy is feasible – or radical enough to tackle the scale of the problem.