Wes Streeting sets out pitch for Labour leadership with blistering attack on Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage
Ex-Health Secretary Wes Streeting has hinted he will stand in a "proper contest" to replace Sir Keir Starmer as Labour leader and Prime Minister.
Mr Streeting, who had been accused of plotting against the Prime Minister for months, set out his stall at a Progress think tank event in London.
The Ilford North MP called for a "proper contest" to replace Sir Keir after warning Labour will become "the handmaidens of Nigel Farage and the breakup of the United Kingdom".
In his first public appearance since resigning as Health Secretary on Thursday, Mr Streeting added: "The English nationalism represented by Farage and Reform is a threat to the values and ideals that have made this country great.”
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