Wes Streeting enjoyed himself in the Commons on Thursday, taunting the Conservatives: “It must be so painful for them to watch a Labour government doing the things that they only ever talked about: reducing bloated state bureaucracy; investing in defence; reforming our public services; and bringing down the welfare bill.”
This was confirmed by a two-word text from a Tory adviser to a Financial Times journalist who had reported the health secretary’s words: “It is.”
