Thursday, April 17, 2025

Wes Streeting, one of the few cabinet ministers who is actually delivering what the people want, has an interesting interview in The Spectator.

He says he will not go on a chicken run from his Ilford North seat, in which case he is likely to lose it – a pro-Palestinian independent came within 500 votes of winning last year, and Labour is unlikely to gain votes next time.

This is brave of him, but he should go to a safe seat because he is good. He has only just started the huge task of turning the NHS round, which will take more than one parliament, but he is doing all the right things – namely, bringing in Alan Milburn, Paul Corrigan, Michael Barber and Liz Lloyd (all the people who turned the NHS round last time).

He should abandon Ilford because his country needs him.

Written by John Rentoul

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