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The Latest Breaking News from Wes Streeting

Greens say Sian Berry 'generous and noble' to quit City Hall job straight after re-election

Labour’s shadow health secretary Wes Streeting had called Berry’s move ‘very poor’

Evening Standard · May 14, 2024

Conservative defector to Labour ‘was bitter at not getting ministerial job’

Tory sources allege that Dover MP Natalie Elphicke crossed the floor because she was not given a post running housing policy

The Guardian - UK · May 11, 2024

Labour should be ‘less tribal’, says Keir Starmer after Elphicke defection

Party leader welcomes MP in Dover speech as he announces plan to replace Rwanda scheme with new border security unit

The Guardian - UK · May 10, 2024

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‘They’re everywhere’: Labour’s wooing of City goes into overdrive

Starmer and Reeves have created 2020s version of party’s 1990s ‘prawn cocktail offensive’ – and business appears hungry for it

The Guardian - UK · May 6, 2024

‘Unethical’ junk food packaging manipulates children into craving sweets, report claims

Bite Back, a Jamie Oliver campaign group, found the 10 biggest producers reel in young shoppers with attention-grabbing colours and cartoons

The Guardian - UK · May 1, 2024

MP’s defection reflects ‘disillusionment’ of Tory voters, says Wes Streeting

Shadow health secretary said Dan Poulter’s defection showed he believed ‘only Labour can be trusted with the NHS’

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2024

Can Wes Streeting’s private sector plans save the NHS?

Letters: Readers weigh up Labour’s plans to use the private health sector to reduce the NHS backlog

The Guardian - UK · Apr 14, 2024

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Wes Streeting defends Labour plan to use private sector to cut NHS backlog

Exclusive: Failure to do so would betray working-class people, shadow health secretary says

The Guardian - UK · Apr 12, 2024

Cass review must be used as ‘watershed moment’ for NHS gender services, says Streeting

Shadow health secretary calls for more thoughtful approach but says he understand scepticism among trans people

The Guardian - UK · Apr 12, 2024

Starmer is courting Tory voters so hard it’s almost as though he wants to lose his own

Now Labour is cosying up to the Sun. Getting its backing could end up looking like a political coup, or the ultimate act of selling out, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

The Guardian - UK · Apr 12, 2024

‘Middle-class lefties’ won’t stop Labour using private sector to cut NHS backlog, Streeting says

Shadow health secretary says quicker treatment to stop working class families being left behind is more important than ideology

The Guardian - UK · Apr 8, 2024

When the right to die becomes the duty to die, who will step in to save those most at risk?

Proponents of legalising assisted dying are right to stop and think of the possible unintended consequences

The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2024

Boris and Carrie Johnson have a second-hand holiday on the slopes

Carrie Johnson proudly boasted online that she found ski gear steals for the children on Vinted

Evening Standard · Apr 2, 2024

Wes Streeting mocks Just Stop Oil activist who broke police bail to deliver him letter - but went to wrong house

The politician poked fun at the environmental campaigners

Evening Standard · Mar 27, 2024

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Evening Standard · Mar 12, 2024

Tories slam party's response to donor who reportedly said Diane Abbott made him 'want to hate all black women'

Frank Hester has admitted making ‘rude’ comments about the politician but said they had ‘nothing to do with her gender nor colour of skin’

The Guardian - UK · Mar 4, 2024

NHS funding faces biggest real-terms cuts since 1970s, warns IFS

Health spending in England to suffer 1.2% cut, worth £2bn, despite extra costs, thinktank’s analysis finds

The Guardian - UK · Feb 24, 2024

NHS tops poll of voters’ concerns as latest strike threatens further havoc

Junior doctors’ 11th walkout in England expected to add to backlogs in service a third of Britons say NHS is most pressing issue

Evening Standard · Feb 23, 2024

Lee Anderson's 'divisive and dangerous' rant against Sadiq Khan condemned by Tory and Labour MPs

Tory chiefs are under pressure to take action against Mr Anderson over his outburst against the London mayor

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Evening Standard · Feb 21, 2024

Muslim Vote group plans to 'punish' Labour party over Gaza stance

The party has been split on calls for a ceasefire for months

The Guardian - UK · Feb 19, 2024

Keir Starmer risks biggest rebellion of his leadership over Gaza vote, MPs warn

Labour backbenchers urge party not to whip them against SNP’s motion calling for immediate ceasefire

The Guardian - UK · Feb 19, 2024

Israel has gone ‘beyond self-defence’ in Gaza, says Labour’s Streeting

Frontbencher says party considering its options on SNP-led Commons vote on ceasefire later this week

Evening Standard · Feb 13, 2024

OPINION - Wes Streeting's election battle over Israel-Gaza is especially sad given Ilford's historic diversity

Two or three times a year my school would half-empty, leaving the remaining gentiles, Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims to twiddle our thumbs. That was because in Ilford, Jewish children were excused for religious holidays. It was, after all, a Jewish community. I grew up in the Ilford North constituency in…

Evening Standard · Feb 13, 2024

OPINION - The Standard View: The challenge to Wes Streeting in Ilford North is symptomatic of Labour's problem

Across the country, Labour is enjoying 20-point leads in the polls. But in individual constituencies, sitting MPs don’t feel so safe. Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting is perhaps the most high-profile example. The Ilford North MP is facing a challenge from an independent candidate over a single issue: Gaza.

Evening Standard · Feb 13, 2024

Bitter battle for Labour as independents target London MPs over Gaza

Pro-Palestinian candidates are working together in capital to unseat politicians who did not support a ceasefire

The Guardian - UK · Feb 5, 2024

How to fix Britain’s crumbling NHS? Whatever you do, don’t ask a doctor

My conversations with senior staff tell me this: only radical reform will work. If he takes control, Wes Streeting must be brave, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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