Labour must be bolder or it will lose, Streeting says in resignation speech

Wes Streeting told MPs: ‘I left the government because we are in the fight of our lives against nationalism.’ Photograph: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA

Labour must be bolder and deliver real change, Wes Streeting has said in his first Commons speech since resigning as health secretary, saying that he quit the government because it was “currently losing” the fight against populist nationalism.

Streeting reiterated his view that leaving the EU had been a damaging mistake for the UK, and argued that young people had been let down by a system stacked against them.