wes streeting

Things can always get worse

16 May 2026 9:00 am

I have spent the past week marvelling at the behaviour of our commentating class. They seem to have whipped themselves…

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Keir Starmer has one card left to play

13 May 2026 4:46 am

As calls for Sir Keir Starmer’s head grow ever louder among Labour MPs, the British Prime Minister is digging his…

The new age of transgender rage

25 April 2026 9:00 am

It’s a year since the Supreme Court ruled that gender means biological sex – and not much has changed. The…

Inside the Wes Streeting plot

15 November 2025 9:00 am

Keir Starmer is stuck in a catch-22. If he is to avoid the threat of continual leadership challenges, the Prime…

For the NHS, it’s Wes or bust

5 July 2025 9:00 am

Labour swept to power on a pledge to ‘save the NHS’. As shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting said he would…

‘We’re going to a more radical place’: Wes Streeting on his plans for the NHS

19 April 2025 9:00 am

A copy of a leading article from The Spectator is stuck to the wall of Wes Streeting’s office in the…

Is Wes Streeting the Hamlet of the health service?

26 October 2024 9:00 am

Is Wes Streeting the Hamlet of the Health Service? Is this undoubtedly talented and thoughtful young Labour prince fatally irresolute…

Labour in limbo over Covid curbs

28 December 2021 7:52 pm

Wes Streeting has enjoyed something of a dream start since his promotion to shadow health secretary a month ago. Confident…

Labour is the real winner of tonight’s vote

15 December 2021 3:33 am

Sajid Javid found himself wading through treacle as he tried to make the case for the government’s ‘Plan B’ to…