Millie Cooke
@milliecooke.bsky.social
Political correspondent at The Independent | (she/her) 🏳️🌈 Millie.cooke@independent.co.uk
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“[Businesses] expressed concern that the proposals would… force staff ‘into the unacceptable role of gender police’.”
Eye-opening story by @milliecooke.bsky.social on the UK’s slow-motion trans rights train crash
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Eye-opening story by @milliecooke.bsky.social on the UK’s slow-motion trans rights train crash
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Hundreds of firms warn new draft guidance on single sex spaces is ‘unworkable’
Exclusive: More than 650 organisations have urged Bridget Phillipson to ‘take immediate action to prevent these proposals from moving forward’
www.independent.co.uk
September 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
“[Businesses] expressed concern that the proposals would… force staff ‘into the unacceptable role of gender police’.”
Eye-opening story by @milliecooke.bsky.social on the UK’s slow-motion trans rights train crash
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Eye-opening story by @milliecooke.bsky.social on the UK’s slow-motion trans rights train crash
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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The Prime Minister's concessions aren't enough. Our new report with Sisters of Frida & supported by @refugecharity.bsky.social warns of the devastating impact of cuts on Disabled women.
Full story by @milliecooke.bsky.social 👇
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Full story by @milliecooke.bsky.social 👇
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Welfare cuts ‘could leave thousands of disabled women trapped with abusers’
Exclusive: The prime minister’s controversial welfare cuts would deepen economic insecurity for disabled women and make them more vulnerable to abuse, a new report has warned
www.independent.co.uk
June 29, 2025 at 7:31 AM
The Prime Minister's concessions aren't enough. Our new report with Sisters of Frida & supported by @refugecharity.bsky.social warns of the devastating impact of cuts on Disabled women.
Full story by @milliecooke.bsky.social 👇
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Full story by @milliecooke.bsky.social 👇
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‘Mike Galsworthy, chair of the pro-EU European Movement, warned that the bloc “expects a conversation on youth opportunity and mobility in any negotiations with Starmer”, adding that the PM “cannot keep saying ‘no’ to reality forever”.’
Brussels presses ahead with bid for youth free movement deal
Exclusive: The bloc is formalising its negotiating position on a youth mobility agreement
www.independent.co.uk
November 14, 2024 at 5:14 PM
‘Mike Galsworthy, chair of the pro-EU European Movement, warned that the bloc “expects a conversation on youth opportunity and mobility in any negotiations with Starmer”, adding that the PM “cannot keep saying ‘no’ to reality forever”.’
EXC: Thousands could be left without protection from slavery and other human rights abuses as a result of a loophole in the government’s Employment Rights Bill
Yvette Cooper has been warned migrant fishermen are facing breaches of their human rights
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Yvette Cooper has been warned migrant fishermen are facing breaches of their human rights
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Thousands left without protection from slavery in employment rights bill loophole
Exclusive: The government has been warned that migrant fishermen are facing breaches of their human rights
www.independent.co.uk
November 14, 2024 at 12:54 PM
EXC: Thousands could be left without protection from slavery and other human rights abuses as a result of a loophole in the government’s Employment Rights Bill
Yvette Cooper has been warned migrant fishermen are facing breaches of their human rights
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Yvette Cooper has been warned migrant fishermen are facing breaches of their human rights
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...