According to one of the Streeting campaign organisers, Wes was plotting his run at the leadership since November last year. When the notorious No10 episode took place…
Adam McNicholas, a Labourite brought into No10 as a junior briefing SpAd out of the consultancy Stonehaven, left and joined the Streeting campaign in a middle-ranking capacity. His LinkedIn says that he worked as a “strategic adviser” to Wesley since November…

It was about ten days into November that Downing Street issued a co-ordinated warning about Streeting’s leadership activity which blew up. In a highly factional Labour Party insiders were well aware that Wes is a prolific briefer. All those months and he still bottled a leadership gambit – twice…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”