Labour MP and Remain campaigner Yvette Cooper repeatedly booed during Brexit debate
FORMER Labour leadership contender Yvette Cooper was repeatedly booed as she appeared for the Remain campaign at Victoria Derbyshire's Brexit debate special.
Yvette Cooper booed on BBC
The MP for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford received the heckles after being introduced to the audience in Manchester.
This was a rare sighting of Miss Cooper, who has remained fairly quiet throughout the referendum campaigns.
Miss Cooper, who is married to former shadow chancellor Ed Balls, has previously called for Britain to fast track application for Syrian refugees seeking a new home in Britain.
A video shows the 47-year-old being booed on multiple occasions at the BBC event.
Labour MP Yvette Cooper was heckled after her introduction on live Brexit debate
The video posted online by political blogger Guido Fawkes shows Miss Derbyshire making three attempts to introduce the Labour MP, only to be met by a noticeable number of boos and jeers.
Last month Miss Cooper was critical of Nigel Farage and the Leave campaign over their repeated warnings about the danger of mass immigration to Britain.
Speaking on BBC's Question Time she said: "In the last few days we’ve had Nigel Farage talking about how there’s somehow going to be violence on the streets, which is not dissimilar to what Enoch Powell said many years ago.
"We’ve also had Boris Johnson attacking Barack Obama for his half-Kenyan heritage.
"And we’ve had Michael Gove say somehow the country is going to be over-run by Albanian criminals. That is playing on division."