Good morning. Going into yesterday, Keir Starmer’s to-do list might have looked rather simple: “Listen to king announce all my new policies. Draw a line under leadership nonsense. Keep calm, and carry on”.
As-yet-still health secretary Wes Streeting appears to have had very different ideas, at least according to sources close to him. Streeting’s aides spent the day briefing that their man had the backing of enough MPs to launch a leadership bid, and that he was preparing his ministerial resignation.
