There are numerous reasons as to why @YvetteCooperMP should resign. Cooper was an inherent failure as Home Secretary from July 2024 until the September 2025 reshuffle, when she was replaced by Shabana Mahmood. Critics point to that period as the core of the record. She later became the Foreign Secretary. Her most egregious, well-documented failures involve small-boat crossings, asylum accommodation, and a number of related Home Office controversies. Small boats and the "Smash the Gangs" pledge Labour's main election promise regarding irregular migration was to dismantle smuggling gangs. Instead, crossings increased during Cooper's tenure. According to Home Office figures, calendar-year small-boat arrivals will be approximately 36,800 in 2024 and 41,472 in 2025, the highest annual total since 2022 (45,755). According to a September 2025 report, more than 50,000 people have arrived by small boat since she became Home Secretary, a figure that was reached faster than under recent Conservative predecessors. In early September 2025, she refused to guarantee that crossings would decrease the following year, saying she would not make "grand promises". The Rwanda scheme was scrapped on the first day. Right-wing critics claimed that no comparable deterrent had replaced it and that the Border Security, Asylum, and Immigration Bill did not stem the flow. Free Movement, writing after the reshuffle, described the year as politically poor for the Home Office precisely because crossings and hotel use both increased—the two metrics by which the government was evaluated. Numbers fell sharply in 2026 under Mahmood (roughly 40% lower year-to-date by late September 2026), which has been used to argue that later measures worked as well as that external factors (fewer irregular arrivals into the EU, fewer Syrians after Assad's fall) are important. During the summer 2025 protests, hotel use remained a flashpoint. Free Movement identified two structural gaps during her tenure: a failure to expedite asylum appeals (a proposed six-month judicial duty with no additional resources or capacity) and inadequate arrangements for integrating people once they have been granted status. Amber Rudd warned in September 2025 that rushing hostile-environment measures could result in another Windrush-style error. Grooming gangs. Cooper initially opposed a new national inquiry, preferring local enquiries and a quick audit by Baroness Casey, with £5 million promised in January 2025 for work in five areas. Conservatives and Reform accused the government of watering it down, which Cooper described as "party political misinformation". Even outlets that supported the local-inquiry model viewed the handling as an avoidable political failure. Her previous Home Office controversies... Southport: Following the murders of Axl Rudakubana, Cooper admitted that police, courts, and Prevent had failed and that the lack of a terrorist ideology had been overemphasised. An extremism review she commissioned was leaked and then disowned by the Home Office after it proposed defining extremism based on behaviour rather than ideology; critics called the draft overly broad and useless. The proscription of the Palestine Action in July 2025 resulted in thousands of arrests and a lengthy legal battle. The early release of prisoners to ease capacity, as well as the summer 2024 disorder response, sparked accusations of uneven enforcement. Refugee organisations and some Labour MPs attacked the same period from opposite sides: the suspension of refugee family reunion (September 2025) was said to push children towards smugglers—language Cooper herself had used in opposition in 2021—and the border bill was criticised for retaining Conservative-era barriers to modern-slavery claims for small-boat arrivals and powers to detain child refugees. She was moved in the 5 September 2025 reshuffle. Contemporary coverage, including the Daily Mail and Free Movement, treated the switch as the price of the crossings and hotel record rather than a routine rotation. Later, as Foreign Secretary, she publicly said Labour “had not done government very well” under Starmer and that No. 10 had sidelined her on the May 2025 immigration white paper. Corrupt? Not Much 😠