Home secretary rejects Zarah Sultana’s claim Labour failing to improve lives – UK politics live | Politics

Zarah Sultana has “always taken a very different view” from the government, the home secretary has said.

Responding to the former Labour MP’s announcement that she was co-founding a new party with Jeremy Corbyn, Yvette Cooper told Sky News:

I think she has always taken a very different view to most people in the government on a lot of different things, and that’s for her to do so.

Cooper also rejected the Coventry South MP’s accusation that Labour was failing to improve people’s lives, saying:

I just strongly disagree with her.

The home secretary pointed to falling waiting times in the NHS, the announcement of additional neighbourhood police officers, extending free…