New Home Secretary visits Lewisham

The UK’s new Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, visited Lewisham on Monday morning to talk local policing, prison “chaos” and the scrapping of the Rwanda scheme.

The Home Secretary was welcomed by Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley in Lewisham, where police officers are responding to antisocial behaviour, retail crime and violence.

Picture: Met Police

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