May sails through TPIMs statement with disapproving attack on Yvette Cooper

Aside from having to explain her government’s policy on clothing that might be used as a disguise, Theresa May did pull it out of the bag, again, in that statement on Mohammed Ahmed Mohammed’s TPIM. Her short speech at the start wasn’t anything to write home about, simply setting out the bare bones of what was being done to find the terror suspect. But it was in her response to Yvette Cooper that the Home Secretary really got her eye in.

She took a rather disapproving tone to answer Cooper’s questions, telling her that she was wrong to suggest that TPIMs were in some way a watering down of Labour’s control orders. She said control orders were constantly being eroded by the courts, and that in TPIMs, the government had a regime supported by the courts:

‘Even if we wanted to go back to the days of control orders, we would not be able to do so.