‘No Fun Ministry’: To disturb the issues upset on Yett Cooper’s desk

“Whatever the wardrobe you open, you know that there are all kinds of terrible things that have fallen there for years, it will fall out.” In this way, the former Home Office of Serving a long time describes working in the department.

And for the Home Secretary Yett Cooper – which connects with us in Sunday’s show – many difficult and emotional issues have landed with a tap at his desk. Groom gang scam. Clear failures of officials in Southport killings. This week, a new line with police forces warns that they have to cut Despite some extra money,

Cooper’s successes or failures actually affect our every single one. He is responsible for the safety of our roads, we handle the dangers facing terrorists, and the police do the border.

Just how much a big job she is facing – and how has she been still?

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Like all cabinet ministers, Cooper and his team are conscious of the tick’s watch. The new government is no longer so new. There are complex problems to solve it that cannot be fixed in a hurry, and the labor wants to be able to display the difference as soon as possible.

His job is “just huge”, an internal formula says – and the challenges faced by Cooper are developing rapidly, whether it is a dangerous channel crossing by migrants who want to create unimaginable numbers in the UK 10 years ago Are, a major increase in fraud, or the way predators are using the technology that are fast moving forward so that they can help in the most disgusting ways with their crimes.

New data from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) shared with us at the end of this week shows how fast this challenge is growing and changing. IWF, a donation with unique powers to remove and remove the content of child abuse and to remove the material, has told us that the use of artificial intelligence to create illegal materials that depict children is growing at a dangerous rate.

According to its analysts, the report of AI-related child sexual abuse has increased by 380% in the last 12 months. In 2024, 2023 had 245 reports compared to 51. Among them, IWF states that 193 included imagery that was so realistic that it should be treated as if it was of real images of children’s abuse.

The Home Secretary has already promised new laws in the coming weeks to try to tighten the problem. And this is one of the issues that we will talk about when she includes us in the studio.

Cooper has a reputation as being his brief specialist in the government, studying every corner and crane of the department, which is the chairman of the committee of Home Affairs and as the Chairman of Chhaya Home Secretary. A source describes it as a “methodical and very intensive”. But the list of jobs is dizzy in his list.

A senior Whitehall figure has described its department as “less morale and struggle to distribute”.

How she can deal with the record level of shoplifting, with Brezen, Kamikes-style attacks Is being done on retailers? What about trying to “break the gang” – Labor’s answer “Stop boats” for the pledge of your predecessors?

We pressed Cooper on these schemes when we Talked to him in Rome Just before Christmas, and the law introduction Terrorist style crime This week to help the smuggling people in Parliament to compete. But she has always been reluctant to give a timetable to the public when she will be able to make a difference.

There is a very little sign of a deal to get France to withdraw migrants – often seen as a remedy that can create the biggest difference.

Government is being attacked with authority Conservative plan to send migrants to migrants in RwandaAlso some other planned measures such as age tests for people coming. From the left, it is criticized to maintain some schemes of the former government, such as Banning of migrants from claiming security Under modern slavery laws.

What about labor promises to halch violence against women and girls? On Friday, a report by the National Audit Office asked the department to read very embarrassing, despite the gradual efforts to set a direction, the house office does not fully understand the problem and has not created a solid difference.

The home office is not easily like headlines. And Cooper is not a politician who attracts attention, the material is seen as a “cool doer”, as a source describes it.

But the bets are very high. They like it or not, the responsibility of responding to failures, or responding to the moments of national crisis, so often fall for them.

The minister, a pre-served minister in the department, says: “You always hesitate before seeing the front pages-at any point, someone can do something somewhere that can end your career” .

Cooper’s rivals in protest say that in the first weeks of this year, she is “making big mistakes”.

They suggest that he did not respond enough to call for a national inquiry into the grooming gangs. He initially denied a national inquiry, as political pressure created, “National Audit” and announced local inquiry. This step appeared to follow the habit of a classic whitehall: If in doubt, call for trouble-resolving baronic baronic leuise Casey to work directly to work.

Rivuys say that “it’s ridiculous” to imagine Cooper’s plans, “Break the gangs” will make a big difference in the number of channel crossings. But home office sources say that this January 2021 was the lowest number of small boat from 2021 since 2021, in 1098, the weather for crossing is doubled by the number of lowly trusted days of weather conditions. Despite.

Nevertheless, the overall work in front of the house office is very large, in which Cooper has no less than security and security of the country and public.

A former Home Secretary said, “This is not a fun ministry, but it is notable”.

With such a ride on his progress, Labor had a better hope that he was correct.

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