Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, is responding to Braverman.

She says the David Carrick case shows an appalling catalogue of failures. Suella Braverman’s response was “very weak” and showed a “serious lack of leadership”, she says.

She says the Metropolitan police should have acted against Carrick much earlier. There was a rape allegation against him in July 2021, and the Met did not act, even though they knew that he had been the subject of domestic abuse allegations two years earlier.

She says there has been a “lack of leadership from the government on police standards for years”.

Labour would completely overhaul the police misconduct and standards system, she says.

UPDATE: Cooper said:

We have to face up to the further evidence that this case has brought up, of appalling failures in the police vetting and misconduct processes that are still not being addressed by the government and are not being addressed in this statement.

I would say to the home secretary that given the scale of the problems, not just in this case, but in previous cases as well, her statement is very weak and it shows a serious lack of leadership on something that is so grave and affects confidence in policing as well as serious crimes …

After the cases right across the country of abuse or of misogyny, Labour has demanded change. Conservative ministers promised action would be taken but they have failed to do so.

Labour will change the law, Labour will overhaul the vetting, misconduct and...

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