‘Is he getting rid of Starmer?’ Profile boost for Streeting in Ilford North seat

Part of Wes Streeting’s Ilford North constituency, where he has been the sitting MP since 2015. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

Wes Streeting’s potential leadership bid has been the subject of mockery from figures within Labour, while the Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch’s slapdown of the now former health secretary in the Commons on Wednesday went viral on social media.

However, in Streeting’s parliamentary seat of Ilford North, his constituents seem rather fond of him and pleased with the prospect that their MP could get the keys to No 10. Lesley, who works in Tesco in Barkingside, said: “He’d be very good. He comes into Tesco’s a lot, he’s a nice man. He talks to all of us.”