In Yvette Cooper’s torrid year at the helm, the Home Office has lurched from one disaster to the next.
And today she is paying the price for a litany of dismal failures.
Chief among them is Labour’s derisory ‘smash the gangs’ pledge to tackle the small boats crisis which has proved hopeless.
The consequent surge in immigration is one of the key factors fuelling the rise of the Reform party which is changing the shape of Britain’s political landscape.
Ms Cooper had vowed the new Border Security Command would 'pursue, disrupt, and arrest those responsible for the vile trade' in people trafficking which has seen drownings and misery beset the English Channel.
