HOME SECRETARY Yvette Cooper unveiled a range of new measures to prove Labour is “the party of law and order” at its conference today.

Laws are to be introduced to ban ninja swords and protests outside abortion clinics, tackle violence against retail staff and address anti-social behaviour.

Ms Cooper also committed to a “serious debate on immigration,” while branding the Tory and Reform parties anti-police wreckers.

She said that the Tories’ response to the far-right riots was “shameful,” adding: “The Tories, with their mates in Reform, are just becoming right-wing wreckers, undermining respect for the law, trying to fracture the very bonds that keep communities safe.”

But confirming Labour’s own opening to Reform voters, she pledged a “serious debate on immigration.”

Her own starting contribution to the debate was to say “that net migration has trebled because overseas recruitment has soared, while training has been cut right back” and adds that “net migration must come down as we properly train young people here in the UK.”

She also repeated familiar policies to “clear the backlog” of asylum claims and use a new Border Security Command to tackle criminal migration gangs.

Labour would also “bring in new powers on anti-social behaviour, shoplifting and off-road bikes” and “put neighbourhood police back in our communities and back on the beat.”

It would “introduce a new law on assaults on shop workers” as well as treating “violence against women and girls as the national emergency it really is.”

Conference also demanded a radical package of measures to avoid any repetition of the Grenfell tower catastrophe.

These included bringing fire testing and research into public ownership, putting building control exclusively in local authority hands, “sustained investment in local government and the fire and rescue service” and setting up a new statutory body to oversee fire safety.

Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack told delegates that the privatisation of the Building Research Establishment “has been an utter disaster introducing commercial considerations where they should never exist.”

And in an emotional speech Sonya Howard from Unison, representing workers from the area around Grenfell in Kensington, said nothing “could ever capture the horrors of that night.”

She added to a standing ovation: “We must remove all the unsafe cladding from every tower block in the country now.”

Diane Abbott slammed Cooper's speech saying it was “shocking. We will never compete with the right on anti-immigrant rhetoric.”