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Wes Streeting (/ ˈ s t r i t ɪ ŋ /; born 21 January 1983) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care since 2021, and Member of Parliament (MP) for Ilford North since 2015.
1 day ago · First published on Fri 10 May 2024 04.16 EDT. Labour’s Wes Streeting has said he has spoken to more Tories considering a defection to the opposition, but insisted the party would not accept just ...
Jun 17, 2023 · Born to a teen mother and with a bank-robber grandfather, Wes Streeting is the Labour politician with an inspirational backstory. He talks youthful arrogance, not being leftwing enough – and...
A SHORT BIO: Wes Streeting is the Labour MP for Ilford North and Shadow Secretary of State for Health & Social Care. Previously he served in Keir Starmer’s front bench team as a Shadow Minister for Schools and Child Poverty and as Shadow Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury.
4 days ago · With a general election looming, Wes Streeting could find himself health secretary by next January. The Labour MP has been shadow health secretary since 2021 and has caused controversy with some of his remarks—including that he won’t let “middle class lefties” stop him from using private providers to tackle NHS waiting lists1 and that the NHS uses every winter as “an excuse to ask ...
Jan 30, 2022 · Wes Streeting: ‘I’m really not the Mary Poppins of the Labour party’. Wes Streeting photographed in Ilford, January 2022. Photograph: Phil Fisk/The Observer. The shadow minister for health...
May 19, 2022 · When he boarded a plane to Israel on May 9, Wes Streeting was merely an ambitious rising star in Britain’s Labour party. By the time he touched down at Ben Gurion airport, the 39-year-old was a...
