Streeting’s government biography was updated within minutes:
“Wes Streeting was Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 5 July 2024 to 14 May 2026. He was elected as the MP for Ilford North in July 2024.”
He was also removed from the DHSC ministerial list on government pages. So civil servants can move fast…
Wes is gone from Labour’s website too. Guido hears Streeting’s SpAd team was removed from the DHSC on Victoria Street within ten minutes of his resignation. Make way for the replacements…
On that front Starmer has an appointment to make. Even if he sets out that timetable…
No10 has in recent weeks tried to avoid a full reshuffle. If it wants to play it safe government sources suggest Secondary Care minister Karin Smyth could be promoted to Health Secretary. She is described as a strong media performer and across her brief. A “safe bet”…
Rayner could be offered the brief were a more ambitious move to be made but she could easily refuse it. Government sources always thought she would be better suited to education, if anything, anyway…
Paula Barker, Liverpool Wavertree MP backing Andy Burnham, told Times Radio there wouldn’t be trouble from the markets under Burnham:
“The markets will have to fall in line.”