WATCH: Labour’s Yvette Cooper Rips Into Absent Home Secretary In Parliament Over Rhetoric

Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper did not hold back in parliament Thursday morning, ripping into Home Secretary Suella Braverman for “divisive” rhetoric, despite her absence from the session, and demanding she be sacked.

During a critical inquiry in the House of Commons, Cooper said that Braverman should be dismissed following her assertions that the Metropolitan Police exhibited politicised favouritism by not intervening in a pro-Palestine march scheduled for Armistice Day.

In an article written for The Times, Braverman also alleged that Islamists aimed to use the upcoming Saturday march to declare “primacy,” drawing a contentious parallel to extremist gatherings in Northern Ireland with supposed ties to terrorism.

Cooper raised a pressing question: “Does this Government still believe in the operation independence of the police, and how can it do so while this Home Secretary is in post?”

“She is encouraging extremists on all sides to attack the police when she should be backing [the police.” Cooper continued to say that Braverman’s actions as “highly irresponsible and dangerous.”

“The job of the Home Secretary is to keep the public safe, not run an endless Tory leadership campaign,” she said.

In closing, Cooper called into question the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s role in endorsing Braverman’s approach in his passivity and questioned his inability to control or remove her from her position.

“If he can’t get rid of her, get a grip of her conduct,” she said, “it means he’s given up on serious government and he and the Home Secretary should both let someone else do the job.”