Wes Streeting

Last updated

2021–2024
Wes Streeting's voice
Streeting speaks at a debate on whether the school curriculum should be used to impart values
Recorded 17 November 2012
The Right Honourable
Wes Streeting
MP
Wes Streeting Official Cabinet Portrait, July 2024 (cropped) 2.jpg
Official portrait, 2024
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Incumbent
Assumed office
5 July 2024

Wesley Paul William Streeting ( /ˈstriːtɪŋ/ ; born 21 January 1983) is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care since July 2024. [1] A member of the Labour Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ilford North since 2015.

Contents

Brought up in Stepney, Streeting attended Westminster City School. He studied history at the University of Cambridge and was President of the Cambridge Students' Union from 2004 to 2005. He was the president of the National Union of Students (NUS) from 2008 to 2010. He also worked for Progress, a Labour Party-related organisation, for a year before working in the public sector. In 2010, he was elected to the Redbridge London Borough Council for the Labour Party and became Deputy Leader of the council in May 2014. Streeting was elected to parliament as MP for Ilford North in the 2015 general election and resigned as the council's deputy leader before standing down as a councillor in 2018. He was reelected in both the 2017 and 2019 general elections.

Streeting endorsed Jess Phillips for the 2020 Labour leadership election and Rosena Allin-Khan for the deputy leadership election. However, he later supported Ian Murray for the deputy leadership after Allin-Khan was defeated. Following Keir Starmer's election as Labour Party leader in the leadership election, he joined the frontbench as Shadow Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury in April 2020. He became the Shadow Minister for Schools in October 2020 after the resignation of Margaret Greenwood before joining the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Child Poverty in the May 2021 British shadow cabinet reshuffle. In the November 2021 shadow cabinet reshuffle, Streeting became, following a promotion by Starmer, the Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care; a position he remained in until July 2024.

Streeting retained his seat in the 2024 general election by a narrow margin, defeating independent candidate Leanne Mohamad. After Labour's victory in the general election, Streeting was appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in the Starmer cabinet. He declared the NHS to be broken and has vowed to resolve the junior doctor strikes and decrease waiting times.

Early life and education

Wesley Streeting was born on 21 January 1983 in Stepney. [2] [3] [4] His parents were teenagers when he was born. [3] He has five brothers, a sister and a stepsister. [3] [5] His maternal grandfather was an armed robber who spent time in prison, and his grandmother became embroiled in his crimes and ended up in Holloway jail, where she met Christine Keeler (a key figure in the Profumo affair). According to Streeting, they "stayed in touch, they became friends". His grandmother was released from prison to give birth to his mother at Whittington Hospital. [3]

Streeting's two grandfathers, both named Bill, were key figures in his youth. His maternal grandfather, Bill Crowley, was acquainted with the infamous East End Krays. [3] He was "really well read and well informed", and engaged his grandson in lively discussions about religion and politics. Streeting's paternal grandfather served in the Second World War in the Royal Navy and later in the merchant navy before becoming a civil engineer. He recalled: "He was the grandad I was closest to. He was a traditional working-class Tory." [3]

Streeting grew up in poverty living in a council flat. [6] [7] He recalls Conservative Party politicians, particularly Ann Widdecombe, in the 1990s "denigrating single-parent families like mine, which I took quite personally". [3] He was educated at Westminster City School, [2] a comprehensive state school in Victoria, London, where he studied history, politics, and religious studies at A-level, receiving three A grades. He went on to study history at the University of Cambridge where he was an undergraduate student of Selwyn College, Cambridge. Streeting had previously left the Labour Party because he opposed its decision to enter the Iraq War, but argued that Tony Blair did not act with malign intent. [8]

Streeting came out as gay in his second year of university. [3] He was elected President of Cambridge Students' Union for the 2004–05 academic year, [2] a sabbatical officer role. As President, he campaigned against the proposed closure of Cambridge University's architecture department. [9]

Career

Early career (2008–2010)

As President of the NUS, Streeting was a strong proponent of his predecessor Gemma Tumelty's proposed reforms to the NUS governance structures, which had been denounced and narrowly defeated by many left-wing groups in NUS as an attack on NUS democracy. [10] His election was reported by The Guardian as "a move that will lend weight to the fight to modernise the union". [11] As NUS President, Streeting was a non-executive director of the NUS's trading arm, NUS Services Ltd, and of Endsleigh Insurance. He was also a non-executive director of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), as well as the Higher Education academy, having served on their board as Vice President (Education) when he was also a non-executive director of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education (OIAHE). Shortly after his election as NUS President, Streeting was appointed as a member of the government's Youth Citizenship Commission, chaired by Professor Jonathan Tonge of the University of Liverpool, which published its report in June 2009. [12] Streeting supported university tuition fees as president, consistent with UK government policy during the New Labour years. [13] As The Independent pointed out, Streeting's decision put the NUS position on student fees to the right of the Liberal Democrats, who had just committed to a policy of free education for all. [14]

In 2009, while President of the NUS, Streeting posted tweets about wanting to push Daily Mail journalist Jan Moir 'under a train'. [15]

Streeting worked for the Labour Party-related organisation Progress for a year. [16] Progress was a pressure group created to support Tony Blair's New Labour in 1996 and continued to promote the thinking of the Blairite-Brownite wing of Labour until 2014. [17] Progress was funded by David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville and coincided with Blair's announcement that he would abolish the party's Clause IV commitment to old-style public ownership. [17]

After completing his term as President of the NUS, Streeting served as Chief Executive of the Helena Kennedy Foundation, an educational charity that promotes access to higher education for students from further education colleges. [18] He went on to serve as head of education at Stonewall, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights charity (for one year and six months), where he led their Education for All campaign to tackle homophobia in schools. [19]

He was subsequently a public sector consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), which he gave up on election as a councillor, because Redbridge Council was a "current audit client" of the firm; this forced him to choose between keeping his job or forcing a second by-election. [20] In 2010, shortly after leaving PwC, Streeting was appointed as Head of Policy and Strategic Communications for Oona King's unsuccessful bid to win the Labour Party's nomination to be its candidate in the 2012 London Mayoral election. [21] [22]

Council career (2010–2018)

Streeting poses with an RMT union banner at a protest against London Underground ticket office closures in March 2015 Wes Streeting with RMT banner.png
Streeting poses with an RMT union banner at a protest against London Underground ticket office closures in March 2015

In a July 2010 by-election, Streeting was elected as a Labour councillor for the Chadwell ward on Redbridge London Borough Council, having stood unsuccessfully for that council's Roding ward two months earlier. He held the seat for Labour by 220 votes, winning with 31.5% of the vote on a 25.5% turnout. [23] The by-election had been triggered by a previously elected candidate subsequently being found to be ineligible to serve on the council. [24] Streeting was elected as Deputy Leader of the Labour Group in October 2011. [25]

Streeting sought re-election in 2014 to represent the Aldborough ward. At a public meeting of the Redbridge Citizens' Assembly on 6 May 2014, Streeting promised on behalf of his group that, if they won the election, they would not reduce the level of Council Tax support provided to low-income working-age residents. In May 2014, Labour took control of Redbridge Council for the first time and Streeting was appointed Deputy Leader of the council, with Jas Athwal as Leader. [26] [27] Once elected, the Labour council proceeded to cut the level of council tax support, so as to treble the amount of Council Tax paid by supported residents from April 2016; the council made a further reduction from April 2017, and made a third reduction from April 2018. [28] [29] [30] [31]

Streeting resigned as Deputy Leader in May 2015, shortly after being elected Member of Parliament for Ilford North. [32] Whilst he remained a backbench councillor following his election to Parliament, he chose not to claim his councillor allowance. [33] Streeting did not stand for re-election after being elected to Parliament, and ceased to be a councillor on 3 May 2018.

Parliamentary career

Backbenches (2015–2020)

At the 2015 general election, Streeting was elected to Parliament as MP for Ilford North with 43.9% of the vote and a majority of 589. [34] [35] [36] After being elected to Parliament, Streeting was elected Honorary President of the British Youth Council. [37] In April 2016 Streeting criticised the Labour Party for refusing a £30,000 donation from McDonald's. According to Labour, the refusal was due to the company's poor record on worker's rights and hostile stance towards trade unions. [38] [39] Streeting campaigned in favour of the United Kingdom remaining in the European Union in the run-up to the 2016 EU membership referendum. [40] He later campaigned for a People's Vote, a campaign group calling for a public vote on the final Brexit deal between the UK and the European Union. [41]

At the snap 2017 general election, Streeting was re-elected as MP for Ilford North with an increased vote share of 57.8% and an increased majority of 9,639. [42] [43] Streeting is a vice-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism, a co-chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on British Jews and a supporter of Labour Friends of Israel. [44] [45] [46] He is also a co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims and a supporter of Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East. [47] In September 2018, he held the last in a series of London-wide consultations to create the Working Definition of Islamophobia. [48] In July 2018, Streeting called for "targeted economic sanctions" against Israeli settlements in the West Bank in response to the Israeli government "grossly infringing on the human rights of Palestinians". [49] In July 2019, Streeting was reported in the media as using abusive language towards a non-Jewish antisemitism campaigner. [50] [51]

Shortly before the 2019 general election, Streeting told a Labour First meeting that the party faced electoral oblivion in any snap poll due to the leadership's poor handling of Brexit and allegations of antisemitism. [52] At the election, Streeting was again re-elected, with a decreased vote share of 50.5% and a decreased majority of 5,198. [53] [54] Following Labour's defeat in the general election, Streeting nominated Jess Phillips and Rosena Allin-Khan in the 2020 Labour Party leadership and deputy leadership elections, [55] [56] and, after Allin-Khan did not win, subsequently endorsed Ian Murray for the deputy leadership. [57]

At the 2024 general election, Streeting retained his Ilford North constituency by a margin of only 528 votes following a challenge by independent British-Palestinian candidate Leanne Mohamad, who ran in protest against Labour's stance on the Israel-Hamas war and the Gaza humanitarian crisis. [58] She ran in protest against Labour's stance on the Israel-Hamas war and the Gaza humanitarian crisis. [59] While she was not elected, Streeting's unexpectedly narrow margin of victory provoked media and political attention, especially in the context of the simultaneous victory of several independent candidates against Labour running on platforms critical of the party's response to the conflict. [60] [61] [62]

Frontbench (2020–2024)

After the election of Keir Starmer as Leader of the Labour Party, Streeting was appointed Shadow Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury. On 16 October 2020, Streeting became Shadow Minister for Schools in succession to Margaret Greenwood, who had resigned the previous day following her opposition to the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill. In the May 2021 shadow cabinet reshuffle, Streeting was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Child Poverty. [63] He was promoted to the post of Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in the November 2021 shadow cabinet reshuffle. [64]

In February 2022, Streeting was re-selected as the Labour candidate for Ilford North at the 2024 general election. [65] Streeting was ranked sixth in the New Statesman's Left Power List of May 2023, described as "one of the most prominent and confident members" of the shadow cabinet. [66] In July 2023, Streeting apologised in response to the treatment of Rosie Duffield by Labour for her views opposing gender self-identification and gender recognition reforms – which have been criticised as transphobic – while acknowledging that the two had differing opinions on transgender rights. [67] [68] In January 2024, he supported single-sex wards in hospitals, with the possibility of separate wards for transgender people in the future. [69] Streeting welcomed the final report of the Cass Review, which dealt with gender services for children and young people, in April 2024. He said that the report "must provide a watershed moment for the NHS's gender identity services" and "provide[d] an evidence-led framework to deliver that". In an interview with The Sun, Streeting stated that he no longer considers his stance on trans rights to be "some people are trans, get over it, let's move on." Instead, he reflects that "there are lots of complexities" in the ongoing debate, while affirming his continued support for transgender rights. [70] [71]

Health Secretary (2024–present)

In July 2024, Streeting was appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. He became a member of the Privy Council on 10 July 2024. [72] Declaring the NHS to be broken, Streeting has vowed to resolve the junior doctor strikes and decrease waiting times.

Political positions

Streeting has said he suggested "working with the best of British business to reform the worst of British capitalism". [73] In 2020, Streeting said he wanted to tax capital gains on the same basis as income and suggested replacing inheritance tax with a lifetime gifts tax. He supports an increase in corporation tax. [73] He has promoted the establishment of a Good Work Commission to bring together the relevant stakeholders to negotiate a new employment rights settlement. [73]

Although Streeting is considered to be on the right of the Labour Party, he said in 2022 he objected to being labelled a Blairite: "There's no future for the Labour party if it's locked in a battle between two competing visions of the past. I don't like being pigeonholed." [3] Following his election, Streeting was described as a "long-time critic" of Jeremy Corbyn, who was leader of the Labour Party from 2015 until 2020. He accused Corbyn of a "flat-footed and lackadaisical attitude" to tackling antisemitism, which was "simply unacceptable". [74] Streeting was among the 70 per cent of Labour MPs who nominated Owen Smith in the 2016 party leadership election. [75] In 2022, Streeting said, "I always thought that Jeremy Corbyn was unelectable and there was a fundamental moral objection to where he was on anti-Semitism." [3]

Streeting is pro-devolution, supporting the idea of providing local authorities with greater control over public policy. [73]

European Union and immigration

Official MP portrait, 2017 Official portrait of Wes Streeting crop 2.jpg
Official MP portrait, 2017

Streeting campaigned in favour of the United Kingdom remaining in the European Union (EU) in the run-up to the 2016 EU membership referendum. [40] In 2018, he stated that a hard Brexit would address voters' concerns regarding sovereignty and migration but would provoke significant economic harm. [76] Streeting appeared in The Sun and tweeted a link to the article saying he would be "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime". [3] On immigration, in 2018, Streeting said: "I regularly make the point that we need better education and training for our own people, but we should be honest with our country that we also rely on attracting people from overseas, particularly with our ageing population and shrinking working age population." [77]

NHS

On health, in December 2021, in response to growing waiting times in the National Health Service (NHS), Streeting said the way to reduce waiting times was better pay and conditions, while keeping a check on the six figure salaries of managers and management consultants. Following a visit to Israel in May 2022, Streeting suggested that the UK should embrace new technologies in the health sector that are commonplace in Israel to improve outcomes. [78] In January 2022, Streeting said that he supported the use of private providers in the NHS to cut waiting lists. [79] In June 2023, Streeting said that the NHS requires three big shifts: "from an excessive focus on hospital care to more focus on neighbourhood and community services; from an analogue service to one that embraces the technological revolution; and from sickness to prevention." [80]

LGBT rights

Streeting has also strongly criticised those campaigning against same-sex education in schools. [81] [82] When asked if transgender women can be women on a Talkradio interview show, he was applauded by Julia Hartley-Brewer for his response, stating: "Men have penises, women have vaginas; here ends my biology lesson." [3]

In January 2024, he voiced his support for putting transgender hospital patients in their own, separate, ward. In the months leading up to the 2024 general election, Streeting also faced criticism from the LGBT community for saying that he regrets once saying that "trans women are women, trans men are men". He has also said it's wrong to claim that gender-critical feminists are "bigoted", and apologised to Canterbury MP Rosie Duffield, who has become known for her contentious views on trans people. [83] After the 2024 general election, Streeting defended the previous Conservative Government's ban on private prescriptions of puberty blockers. [84]

Personal life

Official MP portrait, 2020 Official portrait of Wes Streeting MP crop 2.jpg
Official MP portrait, 2020

Streeting lives in Redbridge, London, with Joe Dancey, a communications and public affairs adviser, [85] [86] and in May 2022 they were engaged to be married. [3] In October 2023, Dancey was selected as Labour's prospective parliamentary candidate for Stockton West at the 2024 general election [87] but he did not win the seat and was the only unsuccessful Labour candidate in the whole of the North East of England. [88] [89] Streeting, who is a practising Anglican, has said his faith is "about compassion, not walking by on the other side", and that it caused serious problems when it came to his sexuality: "My faith was a really big obstacle to accepting myself ... I spent many years choosing not to be gay." [3] He has been engaged to Joe Dancey since 2013. [3]

In May 2021, Streeting revealed he had been diagnosed with kidney cancer [90] and would be stepping back from frontline politics while he received treatment for it. [91] He had received a phone call from his urologist informing him that tests, initially for kidney stones, revealed he had kidney cancer. He was on a campaign visit at the time. However, because the cancer was noticed early, his prognosis was good even though he needed surgery to remove the kidney. [3] On 27 July 2021, Streeting announced that he had been declared cancer-free, following an operation to remove one of his kidneys. [92]

Streeting published his memoir One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry-Up, in June 2023. [22] The book received generally positive reviews. Rachel Cooke of The Observer described the book as "both a little bit boring and unexpectedly fascinating". [93] Jason Cowley of The Sunday Times praised Streeting for telling "his story with emotional intelligence. He is never self-aggrandising, yet part of his appeal is his naked ambition; in a recent interview he was unequivocal about wanting one day to be prime minister. This is the self-made East End boy speaking." [94] Robert Colls of Literary Review was more critical, writing that "There are few ideas here that might take us deeper or wider. Streeting is a self-confessed Christian geek who never stopped reading and who wore his school merit badges with pride, but I was left searching for the intellect on which all his achievements were built. Maybe it will be in the next book." [95]

Streeting was sworn into the Privy Council on 10 July 2024, entitling him to be styled "The Right Honourable" for life. [96]

Electoral history

2020s

General election 2024: Ilford North [97]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Wes Streeting 15,647 33.4 Decrease2.svg20.7
Independent Leanne Mohamad 15,11932.2New
Conservative Kaz Rizvi9,61920.5Decrease2.svg16.2
Reform UK Alex Wilson 3,6217.7Increase2.svg5.8
Green Rachel Collinson1,7943.8Increase2.svg2.4
Liberal Democrats Fraser Coppin1,0882.3Decrease2.svg1.7
Majority5281.2Decrease2.svg9.2
Turnout 47,00859.76Decrease2.svg9.1
Registered electors 78,657
Labour hold Swing

2010s

General election 2019: Ilford North [53] [54]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Wes Streeting 25,323 50.5 −7.3
Conservative Howard Berlin20,10540.1+0.5
Liberal Democrats Mark Johnson2,6805.4+3.5
Brexit Party Neil Anderson9601.9New
Green David Reynolds8451.7New
CPA Donald Akhigbe2010.4New
Majority5,19810.4−7.8
Turnout 50,13468.7−6.1
Registered electors 72,963
Labour hold Swing −3.9
General election 2017: Ilford North [98] [99]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Wes Streeting 30,589 57.8 +13.9
Conservative Lee Scott 20,95039.6−3.1
Liberal Democrats Richard Clare1,0342.0−0.4
Independent Doris Osen3680.7+0.5
Majority9,63918.2+17.0
Turnout 52,94174.8+9.8
Registered electors 70,791
Labour hold Swing +8.5
General election 2015: Ilford North [35] [100]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Wes Streeting 21,463 43.9 +9.6
Conservative Lee Scott 20,87442.7−3.1
UKIP Philip Hyde4,3558.9+7.0
Liberal Democrats Richard Clare1,1302.3−10.4
Green David Reynolds1,0232.1+0.9
Independent Doris Osen870.2New
Majority5891.2N/A
Turnout 48,93265.0−0.2
Registered electors 75,294
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +6.4

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stephen Twigg</span> British Labour Co-op politician

Stephen Daniel Twigg is a British Labour Co-op politician who has served as the 8th Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association since August 2020. He served as Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate from 1997 to 2005, and for Liverpool West Derby from 2010 to 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jon Trickett</span> British Labour politician

Jon Hedley Trickett is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton and Hemsworth, previously Hemsworth, since 1996. He was Shadow Lord President of the Council from 2016 to 2020 and served as Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office from 2011 to 2013 and 2017 to 2020. He was the Labour Party National Campaign Coordinator under Jeremy Corbyn from 2015 to 2017.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Labour Students</span> Student wing of the UK Labour Party

Labour Students is a student organisation within the Labour Party of the United Kingdom. It is a network of affiliated college and university clubs, known as Labour Clubs, who campaign in their campuses and communities for Labour's values of equality and social justice.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ilford North (UK Parliament constituency)</span> Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1945 onwards

Ilford North is a constituency in Greater London that was created in 1945. The seat has been represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by Wes Streeting of the Labour Party since 2015. Streeting currently serves as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in the government of Keir Starmer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ilford South (UK Parliament constituency)</span> Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1945 onwards

Ilford South is a constituency created in 1945 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Jas Athwal of the Labour Party.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andrew Gwynne</span> British politician (born 1974)

Andrew John Gwynne is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Gorton and Denton, previously Denton and Reddish, since 2005. He was Shadow Minister for Social Care from 2023 to the 2024 election. He is currently serving as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Prevention.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David Evennett</span> British Conservative politician

Sir David Anthony Evennett is a former Conservative politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bexleyheath and Crayford at the 2005 general election. Previously he was the MP for Erith and Crayford between the 1983 and 1997 general elections. He served as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from September to October 2022. He retired as an MP at the July 2024 general election.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andrew Pakes</span> British politician (born 1973)

Andrew Elliot Pakes is a British Labour and Co-operative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Peterborough since 2024. He previously served as the President of the National Union of Students (NUS).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Liz Kendall</span> British politician (born 1971)

Elizabeth Louise Kendall is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester West since 2010.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Debbie Abrahams</span> British politician (born 1960)

Deborah Angela Elspeth Marie Abrahams is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Oldham East and Saddleworth since 2011. Abrahams was a member of the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn from 2015 to 2018. She remains in the House of Commons as a backbencher.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jonathan Ashworth</span> British politician

Jonathan Michael Graham Ashworth is a British former Labour and Co-op politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester South from 2011 to 2024. He had served as Shadow Paymaster General from September 2023. Having lost his seat at the 2024 general election, he was appointed chief executive of the Labour Together thinktank.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tommy Sheppard (politician)</span> Scottish National Party politician

Tommy Sheppard is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh East from 2015 until the seat's abolition in 2024. He has been SNP Spokesperson for Scotland since 2023. He is a former SNP spokesperson for the Cabinet Office and a former SNP Shadow Leader of the House of Commons. He is also known for founding The Stand Comedy Clubs in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Clive Lewis (politician)</span> British Labour politician (born 1971)

Clive Anthony Lewis is a British Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich South since 2015. Lewis was a candidate for Leader of the Labour Party in the 2020 leadership election. He is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group parliamentary caucus.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jas Athwal</span> British Labour Party politician (born 1963)

Jasbir Singh Athwal is a British Labour Party politician who is the current MP for Ilford South since 2024. He previously served as Leader of Redbridge London Borough Council from 2014 to 2024.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sarah Owen</span> British Labour politician

Sarah Mei Li Owen is a British Labour Party politician and trade unionist who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Luton North since 2019. She is the first MP of South East Asian descent and the first female MP of Chinese descent.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David Simmonds</span> British politician

David Timothy Simmonds is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner from 2019. Simmonds was formerly a councillor on Hillingdon London Borough Council, having served from 1998 to 2022. He has been Shadow Minister for Housing, Communities and Local Government since July 2024.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sam Tarry</span> British Labour politician, MP for Ilford South

Samuel Peter Tarry is a British former politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ilford South from 2019 until 2024. He was a member of the Socialist Campaign Group parliamentary caucus. On 10 October 2022 he was deselected by the Ilford South Constituency Labour Party as its candidate for the 2024 election.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ian Byrne</span> British politician

Ian Robert Byrne is a British independent, formely Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool West Derby since 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paul Holmes (Conservative politician)</span> British Conservative politician (born 1988)

Paul John Holmes is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hamble Valley since 2024. He was the Member of Parliament for Eastleigh from 2019 to 2024. He has been Shadow Minister for Northern Ireland, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and an Opposition Whip since July 2024.

Leanne Mohamad is a British-Palestinian activist who stood as an independent candidate in the 2024 United Kingdom general election against Wes Streeting, the Labour Party incumbent and shadow health secretary, in the constituency of Ilford North. She stood for election in protest against Labour's stance on the Israel–Hamas war and the Gaza humanitarian crisis.

References

  1. ↑ "Ministerial Appointments: July 2024". gov.uk. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 Anon (2015). "Streeting, Wesley Paul William" . Who's Who (online Oxford University Press  ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U284028.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Parker, George; Pickard, Jim (19 May 2022). "Is Wes Streeting the saviour Labour desperately needs?". Financial Times. London. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  4. ↑ Whale, Sebastian (22 March 2020). "Wes Streeting: People in the Labour Party have got to start liking one another again. We've got to build a common cause". Politics Home. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
  5. ↑ Rachel Sylvester (18 September 2021). "Labour's Wes Streeting on childhood poverty and battling homophobia". The Times. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  6. ↑ "Is Wes Streeting the next Labour leader?". New Statesman. 25 January 2022.
  7. ↑ Streeting, Wes (8 January 2019). "Wes Streeting: This country needs good quality social housing, now". LabourList. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
  8. ↑ Sebastian Whale (22 March 2020). "Wes Streeting: People in the Labour Party have got to start liking one another again". The House. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
  9. ↑ Layfield, Luke (29 October 2004). "Architecture under threat at Cambridge". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  10. ↑ "www.nusdemocracy.org.uk".
  11. ↑ Lipsett, Anthea (2 April 2008). "New NUS president voted in | Students". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  12. ↑ "Home – Youth Citizenship Commission". Ycc.uk.net. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  13. ↑ "NUS president Wes Streeting: 'Moving to the right on tuition fees". The Independent. 26 February 2009. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  14. ↑ "NUS president Wes Streeting: 'Moving to the right on tuition fees". The Independent. 26 February 2009. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
  15. ↑ "Should these Labour MPs go to prison too?". The Daily Telegraph . 13 August 2024. Retrieved 20 August 2024.(subscription required)
  16. ↑ Wes Streeting. "About Wes". Wes Streeting's blog. Archived from the original on 28 December 2011.
  17. 1 2 "Exclusive: 'New Labour' consigned to the dustbin of history as". The Independent. 7 May 2014. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
  18. ↑ "Wes Streeting, CEO, Helena Kennedy Foundation". FE Week. 2 October 2011. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
  19. ↑ "Former Stonewall campaigner Wes Streeting elected as MP". PinkNews. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
  20. ↑ "The Week in Higher Education". Times Higher Education . 10 August 2010. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
  21. ↑ Jess Freeman (12 August 2010). "What's stopping Oona King?". Total Politics. Retrieved 1 September 2011.
  22. 1 2 Streeting, Wes (2023). One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On. London: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN   978-1399710107.
  23. ↑ "Chadwell Ward". Archived from the original on 25 February 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
  24. ↑ "Redbridge: Ineligible councillor resigns". East London and West Essex Guardian Series. 25 May 2010. Archived from the original on 9 May 2011.
  25. ↑ "Councillor Wes Streeting". Redbridge London Borough Council. Archived from the original on 24 April 2020. Retrieved 10 May 2012.
  26. ↑ "Redbridge i – Local Election result, 2014". Redbridge Council. Archived from the original on 19 September 2016. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  27. ↑ Hill, Dave (23 May 2014). "Local elections: Labour wins control of Redbridge council for first time". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  28. ↑ Blackburn, Ralph (25 November 2015). "Redbridge parties clash over council tax relief cuts". Ilford Recorder. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  29. ↑ Blackburn, Ralph (12 September 2015). "Council tax support could be cut for Redbridge residents". Ilford Recorder. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  30. ↑ Keay, Lara (25 January 2016). "12,000 poor workers to be hit by cuts to council tax reduction scheme". Wanstead & Woodford Guardian. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  31. ↑ "Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme 2017/18" (PDF). Redbridge Council. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  32. ↑ Patient, Douglas (20 May 2015). "New deputy leader of Redbridge council announced". East London and West Essex Guardian Series. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  33. ↑ "Wes Streeting MP on Twitter" . Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  34. ↑ "2015 General Election Results". Redbridge Council. Archived from the original on 22 May 2015. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  35. 1 2 "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  36. ↑ "2015 General Election Results". Archived from the original on 22 May 2015. Retrieved 20 May 2015. 19Jul15
  37. ↑ "British Youth Council Honorary Presidents". British Youth Council. Archived from the original on 23 April 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  38. ↑ Streeting, Wes (18 April 2016). "Labour's McDonald's ban is virtue signalling of the worst kind". The New Statesman. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021.
  39. ↑ Landin, Conrad (19 April 2016). "What an Argument About McDonald's Tells Us About the State of the Labour Party". Vice News.
  40. 1 2 Streeting, Wes (1 February 2017). "Chuka Umunna and Wes Streeting: Why we Labour Remainers voted to trigger Article 50". Inews. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  41. ↑ Streeting, Wes (13 July 2018). "Streeting – No deal Brexit would be very worst possible outcome". People's Vote. Open Britain. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
  42. ↑ "Ilford North parliamentary constituency". BBC News.
  43. ↑ "CBP 7979: General Election 2017: results and analysis" (PDF). UK Parliament (2nd ed.). London: House of Commons Library. 29 January 2019 [11 July 2017]. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  44. ↑ Streeting, Wes; Siddiq, Tulip (24 April 2017). "We've heard your anxieties loud and clear". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  45. ↑ "APPG on British Jews". Board of Deputies of British Jews. Archived from the original on 2 September 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  46. ↑ "LFI Supporters in Parliament". Labour Friends of Israel. 23 March 2018.
  47. ↑ "Parliamentary Supporters". Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East (LFPME). Retrieved 19 September 2018.
  48. ↑ Walawalkar, Aaron. "All-Party Parliamentary Group consultation in Hainault on legal definition of Islamophobia draws in around 80 people". Ilford Recorder. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
  49. ↑ Weich, Ben (5 July 2018). "'Friend of Israel' MP calls for economic sanctions against West Bank settlements". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  50. ↑ "Labour moderate explodes in row over MP hopeful's apology for antisemitism". Jewish Chronicle. 28 July 2019. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
  51. ↑ "These non-Jews are fighting Labour anti-Semitism from the inside". Haaretz. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
  52. ↑ Wearmouth, Rachel (17 July 2019). "Jeremy Corbyn-Led Labour Party 'Destined To Lose General Election', MPs Claim". Huffpost. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
  53. 1 2 Donald, Andy (14 November 2019). "STATEMENT OF PERSONS NOMINATED AND NOTICE OF POLL: Election of a Member of Parliament: Ilford North Constituency" (PDF). Redbridge London Borough Council . Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 November 2020.
  54. 1 2 "2019 general election results: Ilford North". London: UK Parliament. Archived from the original on 2 June 2021. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  55. ↑ "Rolling list: MP/MEP nominations for Labour leadership candidates". LabourList. 8 January 2020. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  56. ↑ "Rolling list: MP/MEP nominations for Labour deputy leadership candidates". LabourList. 8 January 2020. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  57. ↑ Streeting, Wes [@wesstreeting] (24 February 2020). "I'm voting for @IanMurrayMP # 1 for Deputy Leader. He's faced up to the scale of the challenge and told us what we need to hear, not just what we want to hear. He's a proven fighter and a winner. Every answer he's given has been rooted in our values. http://murrayfordeputy.co.uk" (Tweet). Retrieved 25 February 2022– via Twitter.
  58. ↑ Mulla, Imran. "UK election 2024: British-Palestinian Leanne Mohamad narrowly loses to Labour's Wes Streeting". Middle East Eye. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  59. ↑ Mulla, Imran (5 July 2024). "UK election 2024: British-Palestinian Leanne Mohamad narrowly loses to Labour's Wes Streeting". Middle East Eye . Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  60. ↑ "Pro-Gaza candidates dent Labour's UK election victory". Reuters . 5 July 2024.
  61. ↑ "Pro-Gaza candidates squeeze Labour vote in some constituencies". BBC News . 5 July 2024.
  62. ↑ Tahir, Tariq (7 July 2024). "Leanne Mohamed supporters hope for more after giving Labour cabinet minister scare". The National .
  63. ↑ Rodgers, Sienna (14 May 2021). "Reshuffle: Keir Starmer's new Labour frontbench in full". LabourList. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  64. ↑ Rodgers, Sienna (29 November 2021). "Big reshuffle sees Cooper, Streeting, Lammy, Reynolds, Phillipson promoted". LabourList. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  65. ↑ Wes Streeting [@wesstreeting] (13 February 2022). "Big thanks to @IlfordNorthCLP for automatically re-selecting me as their general election candidate. Every branch and affiliate vote returned in favour. North Korean-style victory narrowly avoided thanks to just one member who voted against. Looking forward to more of this 👇🏻" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  66. ↑ Statesman, New (17 May 2023). "The New Statesman's left power list". New Statesman. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  67. ↑ Quinn, Ben (28 July 2023). "Wes Streeting apologises to Rosie Duffield for treatment by Labour over gender views". The Guardian . Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  68. ↑ Hansford, Amelia (31 July 2023). "Wes Streeting faces backlash for Rosie Duffield apology on gender-critical views". PinkNews . Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  69. ↑ Hansford, Amelia (30 January 2024). "Labour's Wes Streeting backs separate hospital wards for trans patients". PinkNews . Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  70. ↑ "Labour's Wes Streeting no longer stands by statement 'trans women are women'". PinkNews.
  71. ↑ Campbell, Denis; Gentleman, Amelia; Vinter, Robyn (10 April 2024). "Thousands of children unsure of gender identity 'let down by NHS', report finds". The Guardian .
  72. ↑ Wes Streeting [@wesstreeting] (10 July 2024). "It was an honour to be sworn in as a member of His Majesty's Privy Council at Buckingham Palace this afternoon and to collect the seal of office for @DHSCgovuk" (Tweet). Retrieved 10 July 2024– via Twitter.
  73. 1 2 3 4 Sebastian Whale (22 March 2020). "Wes Streeting: People in the Labour Party have got to start liking one another again". The House. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  74. ↑ Helm, Toby (28 May 2016). "Jeremy Corbyn 'failed to reply' to Israeli Labour on fears of antisemitism". The Observer . Guardian News and Media. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  75. ↑ "Owen Smith nominated by 70% of Labour MPs". ITV. 20 July 2016. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  76. ↑ Wes Streeting (12 October 2018). "We social democrats need to be honest about why we keep losing - and how we can win again". The New Statesman. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
  77. ↑ Wes Streeting (19 December 2018). "Wes Streeting Slams Immigration Proposals". Labour Party. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  78. ↑ Wes Streeting (19 May 2022). "Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting: Israel's Hospital and Treatment Technology is 10 Years Ahead of NHS". Labour Friends of Israel. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
  79. ↑ "Labour would use private providers to cut NHS waiting lists, says Streeting". BBC News. 7 January 2022. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
  80. ↑ Rowena Mason and Simon Hattenstone (17 June 2023). "Wes Streeting says he has ambitions to become prime minister". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  81. ↑ West, Amy (8 June 2019). "Labour MP criticises colleague for supporting anti-LGBT education protesters: 'There must be no place for hatred'". Pink News. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  82. ↑ "Gay MP Wes Streeting: 'Parents cannot pick and choose which parts of the Equality Act should apply'". Gay Times. 13 June 2019. Archived from the original on 8 July 2019. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
  83. ↑ "Gay Labour MP Wes Streeting becomes health secretary". Pink News. 5 July 2024. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  84. ↑ "Labour's Wes Streeting faces backlash from own MPs as he defends Tory ban on puberty blockers". Attitude . 16 July 2024. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  85. ↑ "Streeting, Wes (Ilford North)". The Register of Members' Financial Interests. House of Commons. 23 November 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  86. ↑ November 2023, Jonathan Owen 08. "More PR professionals bidding to become Labour MPs". www.prweek.com. Retrieved 4 July 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  87. ↑ "Labour selects candidate to stand in new Teesside seat at next general election". The Northern Echo. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  88. ↑ "General election: Matt Vickers re-elected as last Conservative MP standing on Teesside". Yahoo News. 5 July 2024. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  89. ↑ "Labour sweeps North East as general election results declared: A rare win for Tories on Teesside". BBC News. 5 July 2024. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  90. ↑ "Labour MP Wes Streeting diagnosed with kidney cancer". BBC News. 14 May 2021.
  91. ↑ "Labour MP Wes Streeting diagnosed with kidney cancer". The Guardian. 14 May 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  92. ↑ "Labour MP Wes Streeting 'over the moon' to be cancer free after successful operation". PinkNews. 27 July 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  93. ↑ Cooke, Rachel (27 June 2023). "One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up by Wes Streeting review – memoir by a man on the move". The Observer . Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  94. ↑ Cowley, Jason (5 June 2024). "One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up by Wes Streeting — he scares Tories". The Sunday Times . Retrieved 5 June 2024.
  95. ↑ Colls, Robert (5 June 2024). "From Wapping to Westminster". Literary Review . Retrieved 5 June 2024.
  96. ↑ "List of Business – 10 July 2024" (PDF). Privy Council Office. 10 July 2024. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
  97. ↑ "General Election 2024 results". Redbridge Council. 5 July 2024. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  98. ↑ "Ilford North parliamentary constituency". BBC News.
  99. ↑ "CBP 7979: General Election 2017: results and analysis" (PDF). UK Parliament (2nd ed.). London: House of Commons Library. 29 January 2019 [11 July 2017]. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  100. ↑ "2015 General Election Results". Archived from the original on 22 May 2015. Retrieved 20 May 2015. 19Jul15
Non-profit organization positions
Preceded by President of the National Union of Students
2008–2010		Succeeded by
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament
for Ilford North
2015–present		Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
2021–2024		Succeeded by
Preceded by Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
2024–present		Incumbent
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.