Good morning. Wes Streeting’s first statement as health secretary was a startling one. Just a day after Labour’s historic election triumph, he declared that “the NHS is broken”. Now, almost exactly a year later, he returns with a 10-year plan to fix it, in what’s been billed as the most ambitious health reform agenda in a generation.
It’s hard to overstate the significance of this moment. Reforming the NHS was central to Labour’s election manifesto, and last year prime minister Keir Starmer made the consequences clear: “Reform or die,” he warned, and with it, staked the next election on his government’s ability to deliver meaningful change.
