Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has once again declined to appear on GB News despite being scheduled for interviews, while giving interviews to other broadcasters about new asylum rules.
The Home Secretary spoke to Sky News and other outlets today about plans to bar sex offenders from claiming asylum, but chose not to appear on The Peoples Channel.
Revealing his disappointment, GB News' Home and Security editor, Mark White explained: "It's quite disappointing that yet again, the Home Secretary has decided not to come on to GB News today.
"She was scheduled for the morning round this morning. And this is an issue of course, that is a very important issue for the GB News audience.
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"But for whatever reason, the Home Secretary had decided that she would not appear on this channel.
"Despite being told a couple of weeks ago at an event in Cambridgeshire where once again she was scheduled to come on and be interviewed by me but she pulled out."
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He added: "So every morning there is what's known as the morning round.
"Effectively where all of the political, the main political parties would have an individual such as a government minister for clearly the Labour Party, shadow minister for the Conservatives, who would be up and would talk on the issues of the day.
"There are certain ministers when we hear that they are on the morning round. The chances of them actually appearing on the channel are quite slim."
Cooper told Sky News that the Government is reviewing how the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is interpreted by UK courts, particularly regarding Article 8 on the right to family life.
"One of the areas where we are looking at the way in which international law is being interpreted in the United Kingdom is issues around family life," Cooper said.
She explained that "the way in which it's being interpreted in the courts is an issue" and believes "greater clarification" can be provided through UK law.
Cooper later told Times Radio she believes "it is possible to change the way in which Article 8 is being interpreted" as too much has been "left to ad hoc decisions by the courts."
The Government has announced plans to bar migrants convicted of sexual offences from claiming asylum in the UK, regardless of the length of their sentence.
Yvette Cooper dodged a GB News questioning again
POOLCooper said that people like Abdul Ezedi, who carried out an acid attack last year, had been granted asylum despite being on the sex offenders' Register for a decade.
"I just think that's wrong. I think it's a disgrace that he was granted asylum in that case, and that's why we're now changing the law," she said.
Currently, only terrorists, war criminals and those with sentences of 12-months or longer automatically lose the right to apply for asylum.
"I don't think that goes far enough, I really don't think that goes far enough," Cooper stated.
