Yvette Cooper is not fit to be Home Secretary (Image: PA)

       You would think any self-respecting Home Secretary would resign after a summer of violent political riots, but not Yvette Cooper.

       It was obvious why some of those people were rioting and protesting: false information being fed through social media, a deep mistrust of the media, a sense of two-tier justice, people feeling like they weren’t being told the truth and, ultimately, frustrations that their concerns surrounding immigration and justice were not being heard.

       Instead of taking the time to understand why ordinary people were angry, the Labour Party jumped at examples of racist thugs and chose only to focus on those elements, ignoring the real concerns of ordinary people. They might as well have branded all of us as far-right thugs and racists.

       The police were quick to rule out terrorism and did their best to gaslight the public. Now, new allegations have come to light regarding the alleged Southport attacker being charged with possessing an al-Qaeda training manual and with making the poison ricin. It's important to point out that Merseyside Police maintains that the Southport attack is not being treated as terror-related in and of itself.

       Though it's possible that an attack might itself not be terrorism despite a perpetrator possessing terror material, the swiftness with which terrorism was ruled out in this particular case, which now involves a separate terror charge, is at the very least not a good look for those charged with administering law and order in this country.

       And questions must still be asked. Chief among them: why did the authorities immediately downplay and rule out any connection with terrorism?

       Yvette Cooper has come out with a measly statement that will do little to reduce public unrest, not even mentioning the word terrorism, and we all know why: it’s because it doesn’t suit her political agenda.

       But Yvette Cooper has form for this; immediately after the Manchester Airport incident, she threw the police officers under the bus, taking the side of the attackers, this was of course, before additional footage was obtained by the Manchester Evening News, which appeared to show the two men attack female police officers, leaving one with a broken nose. Even with the extended footage, the Crown Prosecution Service is pondering what charges to bring in the case.

       Once again, she made an uninformed (or, as some cynics like myself would believe, a deliberately one-sided) statement that sought to victimise one party in order to paint a narrative that suited her beliefs at the expense of another. To date, she has not corrected her original statement.

       Just days ago, we got the verdict in the Chris Kaba case, which saw Martyn Blake found not guilty of murder. Though Yvette Cooper claims to want to protect police officers, including anonymity during firearms-related prosecution proceedings, she also assured Parliament that she'd listened to "civil society organisations".

       She added that the College of Policing will compile a Lessons Learned database relating to deaths and serious injuries after police contact. The database will be used in training and guidence to preven the repetition of certain events in the future.

       I’m not really sure that the Home Secretary should be taking as a lesson from a shooting in which a police officer has been cleared of murder that the actions and mistakes of officers should be a focus.

       Some may conclude that perhaps she just always has something to say, but unfortunately, this is not the case with the murder of Rhiannon Skye White, who was allegedly murdered with a screwdriver as a result of a row over biscuits by someone who the BBC understands to have been an asylum seeking resident of the hotel at which she worked.

       You would think she would make a clear statement about this issue at the early stages of the case, considering the fact that she announced the Government would be treating "extreme misogyny" as a form of terrorism.

       These actions show that Yvette Cooper doesn’t care about women when it’s not politically convenient for her, she doesn’t care about justice when it's not politically convenient for her, she doesn’t care about the police when it’s not politically convenient for her, and she doesn’t care about the safety of the British public when it's not politically convenient for her.

       We cannot have a Home Secretary who refuses to tell the British people the truth because it doesn’t suit the political narrative that she wants.

       Yvette Cooper has shown time and time again that she is not fit to be Home Secretary. Southport is the final straw; she needs to go.