Yvette Cooper and Zarah Sultana

Home secretary Yvette Cooper rejected former Labour MP Zarah Sultana’s attacks on the government this morning.

Sultana announced last night she was quitting Labour, a year after she was suspended for voting against the government’s plans to keep the two-child benefit cap.

As she declared she was setting up a new party with former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, the MP for Coventry South said the government had “completely failed to improve people’s lives”.

She claimed that’s why Nigel Farage’s Reform UK was leading in the polls.

Sultana said: “In 2029 the choice will be stark: socialism or barbarism. Billionaires already have three parties fighting for them. It’s time the rest of us had one. Join us. The time........

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