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Wes Streeting has confirmed that Labour MPs will back the government in an upcoming vote on the introduction of tighter public health restrictions detailed under the government's 'plan B' for combatting Covid this winter. Discussing the…
Dominic Raab is under fire again for his mishandling of the Kabul evacuation. The former Foreign Secretary, recently demoted to Justice Secretary but also given the title of Deputy Prime Minister, was on holiday when the Taliban takeover…
Wes Streeting has urged the government to "come clean" over the party reportedly held in contravention with Covid rules in the run-up to Christmas last year or risk undermining public compliance with the restrictions. Making his…
Yvette Cooper has become Shadow Home Secretary, Wes Streeting is the new Shadow Health Secretary and Jonathan Reynolds is the Shadow Business and Industrial Strategy Secretary after Keir Starmer's wide-ranging reshuffle today. The extensive…
Labour has approved the renewal of the Coronavirus Act and allowed it to pass without a formal division – but the opposition urged the government today to take action on booster jabs, ventilation and more amid a rise in Covid cases. “We do…
There are two key moments that have recently made me sit up and take note. Moments that have made me realise how much of a crossroads we are at in terms of our children’s education and the value we place on the whole child before us. The…
Below is the full text of the speech delivered by Shadow Child Poverty Secretary Wes Streeting to the annual Labour Party conference in Brighton this morning. It’s great to be here in Brighton and I want to thank the whole Party for your…
"Unbelievably cheap". "More than a little harsh". This was the response from Tory MPs on Thursday morning when I merely pointed out to Sky News viewers that the new education secretary Nadhim Zahawi would add to the already burgeoning…
Trevor Phillips on Sunday Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth said Labour would want a "national framework" for social care and aim to save money by looking after people in the community rather than in-patient care units. On the news…
Labour shadow cabinet member Wes Streeting has declared in a new video message that he is "back at work, fighting fit and cancer-free" after taking time out for more than two months to receive kidney cancer treatment. The MP for Ilford…
The central ethos of health care through millennia has been – and is – the hippocratic oath, which gives equal value to the lives of all human beings. But Boris Johnson appears to want to ignore it. We found out that he believed it didn’t…
Labour's Jonathan Ashworth has criticised Boris Johnson over the unlocking, saying "the mayor from Jaws has decided to reopen the beaches" by "recklessly throwing off all restrictions with no safety precautions in place". He was responding…
