Yvette’s on the U-turn express

WHEN Theresa May dropped her Election bombshell, Labour’s Yvette Cooper was on a train heading towards her West Yorkshire constituency. As a frontrunner to succeed Jeremy Corbyn, this was not where she wanted to be, so she jumped off at Peterborough, raced to the opposite platform and hopped on a London-bound express. Within the hour, MPs were receiving the first ‘Cooper for leader’ phone calls.