Yvette Cooper on immigration, the deficit, Alan Milburn

Three Yvette Cooper clips from interview with Laura Kuenssberg 1) On Immigration: LK: Labour was squeamish about it in your view? YC: Yes we were. 2) On Blair era critics. LK: Are they (Alan Milburn and John Hutton) wrong to say the party needs to ...skip a generation YC: I think they're a bit trapped in the past to be honest., I think they're still fighting battles from 2004 and 2005...settle old scores from the Labour party history 3) On running a deficit before the crash LK: It was wrong - just to be clear?... YC: ...I'm saying ideally you would have had it in surplus, so yes it should have been in surplus by that time... Follow @BBCNewsnight on Twitter   / bbcnewsnight   Like BBC Newsnight on Facebook   / bbcnewsnight