I’ve read the entire transcript of Yvette Cooper’s speech to the Labour Party Conference, primarily so that you don’t have to. It runs to over 1800 words, which makes it three times longer than this piece of commentary. You can thank me later. In amongst the bog standard and rather nauseating blah, blah, blah, Cooper pledged to halve knife crime and violence against women and girls in a decade. Whilst at face-value these would appear to be commendable and laudable goals, what she failed to tell her audience of fellow comrades was how these targets are going to be hit. And there’s a reason for …
