{"id":95811,"date":"2025-05-12T16:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/95811\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T16:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:50:12","slug":"the-anti-farage-yvette-cooper-vs-reform-uk-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/95811\/","title":{"rendered":"The anti-Farage? Yvette Cooper vs Reform UK \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCredit where it is due: Labour has had to challenge two of its core constituencies, universities and the public health\/care system, and we will hear plenty of loud complaints from both over the coming weeks,\u201d David Goodhart,\u00a0head of demography, immigration and integration at the center-right Policy Exchange think tank, said after the publication of the immigration white paper on Monday. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Polar opposites<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cooper\u2019s tendency to keep her cards close to her chest is noted by colleagues \u2014 and a clear contrast to the plain-speaking bloke-in-the-pub persona cultivated by Farage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is a very serious career politician who doesn\u2019t do \u2018down the pub for a pint,\u2019\u201d one former colleague, who served on the House of Commons home affairs committee with her, said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"704\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/13011311-1024x704.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6594372\"  \/>In Nigel Farage\u2019s camp, there\u2019s some grudging acceptance that Cooper means business. | Adam Vaughan\/EPA-EFE<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is completely mindful of her image. She is completely humorless,\u201d the former colleague said, lamenting her committee Christmas parties as \u201cnot the biggest let your hair down in town.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA glass of cold chardonnay and a couple of Twiglets and bob\u2019s your uncle,\u201d the former colleague bemoaned.<\/p>\n<p>But Shaw, the former adviser, says that while Cooper is \u201cquite direct and business-like,\u201d she has got a \u201creal human side to her, and a brilliant sense of humor\u201d with the \u201cability to laugh at herself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cCredit where it is due: Labour has had to challenge two of its core constituencies, universities and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,29989,33,393,4884,40,1443,807,6657,384,1144,5111,712,1201,16,15,1764,5113],"class_list":{"0":"post-95811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-ed-balls","11":"tag-elections","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-immigration","15":"tag-jonathan-reynolds","16":"tag-keir-starmer","17":"tag-migration","18":"tag-nigel-farage","19":"tag-northern-ireland","20":"tag-parliament","21":"tag-scotland","22":"tag-trade","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-wales","26":"tag-yvette-cooper"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114495896036303259","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}