Yvette Cooper: ‘Women should not feel pressured to have an ideal birth’

National maternity standards are set to be reintroduced under plans to improve maternity care

Exclusive: New health secretary promises root-and-branch reform after damning maternity scandals Women should not feel pressurised into experiencing an “ideal birth”, the new health secretary, Yvette Cooper, has said, promising a root-and-branch reform of standards after several damning maternity scandals. Cooper, who