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Yvette Cooper says that she would "love" to stay on as Foreign Secretary under a possible Andy Burnham government. Cooper describes her role as "important" given the "scale" of international security threats, such as threats from Russia. Report by Keechl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00As you say, that is a matter for him. I mean, I'm loving doing this job. As you can tell,
00:04it's really important. And I do think that the scale of the security threats that we've seen, I think, has
00:11become much greater. The sort of precariousness of the UK's role in the world has become more significant.
00:19And it's really important that we build our strength and our resilience, whether that be around defence, whether that be
00:25around our economic security, but also that our foreign policy is rooted in our values as well.
00:31So, you know, some of the things that we're dealing with today are around working the frigates that we've got
00:38here, where we're strengthening our defence cooperation with Poland because of the threat from Russia.
00:43But I've also been on the phone to our embassy team in Venezuela about the earthquake, where we're providing support
00:51for those affected by the earthquake because that is rooted in our humanitarian values.
00:56So it's about security and strength, but also about our values.
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