Yvette Cooper: I won’t be challenging Labour leadership result

It was Yvette Cooper’s turn to do a Q&A session on the World at One today and it was a pretty dry affair, unlike Corbyn or Burnham. There was nothing new about her policies or stances but Cooper did note that she fears a split of Corbyn wins — ‘the party does seem to be polarising between the different extremes’ — but Labour HQ has assured her that all the necessary checks over entryism are being done:

‘Obviously I hope there have and the Labour party has assured us that they are doing proper and robust checks — you’ve got to have that. We want people to be part of the election and we want people to be joining to be part of the election. ‘Obviously we don’t want people who have been campaigning against the Labour party and who don’t share the values of the Labour party to be part of that election…I know that they are doing a lot of checks but obviously, that’s the responsibility of the party, not the individual campaigns.’

But if she doesn’t win, Cooper said she won’t be challenging the result:

‘I see no evidence to mount a legal challenge and that’s certainly not what I’m looking at.