YVETTE COOPER knows that the Morning Star has readership and some influence in the trade union movement, so it’s understandable that she should publicise her opposition to the Tories’ anti-union plans.

Setting up a website and asking Labour members and supporters to sign a petition against the government’s proposals may raise awareness of the scale of destruction in preparation.

But for a candidate who is not a regular contributor to our paper’s columns something a little more profound might have been expected.