Millie Cooke

Political Correspondent @Independent (also covering women + equalities ✨) she/her 🏳️‍🌈 [email protected]

[Millie Cooke @cooke_millie]

EXCL: Keir Starmer has for the first time outlined his Brexit reset plans for further European defence cooperation amid an increasingly unstable global landscape

My interview with the PM splashes the Independent today

[Andy Gibson @AndyGibsonTV]

"BURNHAM BLAMES BREXIT FOR SMALL BOATS CRISIS"
@Athena_Stavrou / @Cooke_Millie for @Independent

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has blames Brexit for Britain's Small Boats problem.
Stating leaving European Union weakened border controls.

#TheIndependent
#TomorrowsPapersToday

[Kate Devlin @_katedevlin]

Last week I wrote this exc on calls from senior Labour figures for Andy Burnham to rule out a coalition w the Greens after the ‘Zionism is racism’ motion.

Today at PMQs he seems to have done just that.

https://t.co/d5ucEdKzub

[𝙵𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚝 𝙿𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 𝚃𝚘𝚍𝚊𝚢 📰 @ukpapers]

▫ Polanski facing calls to quit after by-election defeat

▫Former party leader Caroline Lucas has accused Polanski of a failure in leadership
▫@cooke_millie
▫https://t.co/Tsr0mSIbio

@Independent #frontpagestoday #digital #UK

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

BREAKING:

The Guido Fawkes Show LIVE launches tomorrow at 5pm BST.

Expect all the rumours, gossip, and tittle-tattle Westminster doesn't want you to hear.

Join @_adamcherry_, @RossKempsell, and @max__young

Tomorrow. 5pm. LIVE on YouTube.

https://t.co/6LUEDtlBe8

[𝙵𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚝 𝙿𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 𝚃𝚘𝚍𝚊𝚢 📰 @ukpapers]

▫ Met begins criminal inquiry into foreign Reform donations

▫Nigel Farage has insisted he and his aides ‘had done nothing illegal’ and that no money changed hands
▫@cooke_millie @_katedevlin
▫https://t.co/KP6wIoB8OD

@Independent #frontpagestoday #digital #UK

[Ellie Cook @ellliecoook]

Construction on Russia’s planned Black Sea Fleet base at Ochamchire has stalled, satellite imagery shows- working theory from intel assessments is Russia is overstretched, too pre-occupied to worry about an expensive naval base still in UA’s drone grasp

https://t.co/0Q1RoSK2XG

[Paperboy @frontpagestoday]

"PM warned ‘vibes’ won’t stop Putin" — The Independent
By @DavidPBMaddox & @Cooke_Millie

@Independent — Thursday 3 September 🔍

The story focuses on parliamentary pressure regarding defence spending, contrasting the Prime Minister's diplomatic approach with specific warnings from a senior backbencher about Russian threats.

#AndyBurnham #VladimirPutin #TanSinghDhesi

[𝙵𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚝 𝙿𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 𝚃𝚘𝚍𝚊𝚢 📰 @ukpapers]

🇬🇧 Reform raking in £20m from crypto investor donors

▫Crypto has become a major source of funding for Farage’s party, accounting for nearly 60% of its total donations since 2024
▫Harriet Boucher & @cooke_millie
▫https://t.co/bZUOhjqitT

#frontpagestoday #digital #UK @Independent@Independent

[Millie Cooke @cooke_millie]

EXC: Labour’s immigration policy has been an ‘abject failure’, says Burnham-backing pressure group

https://t.co/cmhVGDtpoO

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

There's going to be a lot more of this. https://t.co/X6nZr41B3z

[Bethany Dawson @bethanymrd]

I don't think that's the main takeaway from a speech in a care home on one of the biggest issues of our time, is it

[David Maddox @DavidPBMaddox]

Andy Burnham wants social care reform to be his legacy – but for him this is personal
@Independent

https://t.co/IWKUwU4OIM

[Andy Gibson @AndyGibsonTV]

"PM PLEDGES REVIEW AS WIDOW SAYS PC KILLERS' RELEASE IS 'DEPLORABLE'"
@Cooke_Millie / @AmyClareMartin for @Independent

Andy Burnham pledges review of early prisoner release after widow of murdered PC calls killers’ freedom “deplorable”.

#TheIndependent
#TomorrowsPapersToday

[Albert Toth @alb_toth]

Less ministers from London, but more privately educated...
Me and @cooke_millie break down what you need to know about Burnham's new cabinet for @Independent
https://t.co/MY91EfC76v

[GB News @GBNEWS]

‘Politically, it is a bit of a masterstroke!’

Political Correspondent at The Independent Millie Cooke analyses the significance of Andy Burnham appointing John Healey as Chancellor.

[𝙵𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚝 𝙿𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 𝚃𝚘𝚍𝚊𝚢 📰 @ukpapers]

▫ Burnham vows to be 'circuit-breaker' PM as he purges cabinet

▫Prime minister insists he does not want to leave Downing Street before the social care crisis is fixed
▫@DavidPBMaddox @cooke_millie @Athena_Stavrou
▫https://t.co/uAPJp17Dry

@Independent #frontpagestoday #digital #UK 🇬🇧

[Andy Gibson @AndyGibsonTV]

"BURNHAM VOWS TO BE 'CIRCUIT-BREAKER' PM AS HE PURGES CABINET"
@DavidPBMaddox / @Cooke_Millie / @Athena_Stavrou for @Independent

Andy Burnham vowed to be a 'circuit-breaker' Prime Minister.
He purged Keir Starmer loyalists from The Cabinet.

#TheIndependent
#TomorrowsPapersToday

[𝙵𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚝 𝙿𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 𝚃𝚘𝚍𝚊𝚢 📰 @ukpapers]

▫ World Cup isn't ours but Falklands are, says defiant No 10

▫Downing Street called for Fifa probe after Argentina players held up a banner that read ‘Las Malvinas son Argentinas’,
▫@cooke_millie @DavidPBMaddox @_katedevlin
▫https://t.co/uvgsowqRN0

@Independent #frontpagestoday #digital #UK 🇬🇧

[Marcel The Dynasty Myrick @MMyrick29]

Good Morning @SkyNews and https://t.co/toNygVHO7g! As you start your day with "The Full Story, First", Tune in Now as @cooke_millie joins Mornings with @GarethBarlow for Tuesday's Paper Review. #skynews

[Sky News @SkyNews]

What's on Sunday's front pages?🗞️

@SkyGillian is joined on The Wrap by Millie Cooke, political correspondent at The Independent and political and PR consultant, Nathaniel Ogunniyi for a first look at tomorrow's top stories.

#PressPreview: https://t.co/Ke0h6RChLz