UK: Health Secretary Wes Streeting Resigns, Does Not Announce Leadership Bid
The Spin
Narrative A
Streeting is a self-made politician who rose from a council flat in Stepney to Cabinet, representing a Blairite alternative with real governing experience. Time and time again Labour's choice of a socialist leader has led to electoral annihilation, leaving Streeting — also the party's best communicator — as the sensible choice if the party want to implement credible governance.
Establishment-critical narrative
Wes Streeting is bought and paid for by private health care interests, with over £372,000 in donations from private health companies while he champions privatizing NHS services. Polling shows a Streeting-led Labour would be obliterated on a national level, with the majority of Brits who've heard of him actively disliking him. Streeting is Labour in name only — he is not the person to fix Britain.
