On the Whitehall grapevine, Wes Streeting is seen as a rare success story for the government: a good communicator who is starting to deliver the change Keir Starmer promised.
The chatter in Streeting’s health department predicts his next stop will be 10 Downing Street. However, the health secretary might face an uphill battle to win over the Labour grassroots in the “one member, one vote” ballot that chooses the party’s leader. Even some of his admirers suspect he might be too right wing, or “Blairite”, for many of them.
