Yvette Cooper is a left-field choice for Health Secretary
What does Yvette Cooper as Health Secretary mean for the NHS? It’s a question no one thought to ask before today, which underlines why her appointment is quite left-field. Cooper does have experience: she was a junior minister in the health department back in the very early days of the Blair government and was part of the team that implemented the Sure Start programme. But it’s been a while since those days, and Cooper hasn’t talked that much about health since. Like her new boss, Cooper pledged to integrate health and social care when she........
