Who would be in Wes Streeting’s corner if he ran for the Labour leadership?

The health secretary’s backers have different – not always ideological – reasons for supporting him Wes Streeting prepares to launch leadership challenge against Keir Starmer For all that Labour’s left denounce Wes Streeting as a reincarnated Blairite, he has friendships and alliances across various Labour factions, not all of which lean into each other. As he considers a bid to challenge Keir Starmer, the MPs supporting him are not ideological clones. Some are personal allies, while others simply see him as one of the few senior Labour figures capable of communicating beyond Westminster. The Glasgow South West MP is among the small group of Streeting-supporting junior ministers who resigned on Tuesday. Working in Streeting’s health department, the former surgeon collaborated closely with Streeting on NHS reform. Ahmed used his resignation to publicly criticise Starmer’s leadership. One of the better-known ministers, despite her officially junior role covering safeguarding in the Home Office, Phillips also resigned on Tuesday as Streeting’s allies sought to pick up momentum to push Starmer out. The Birmingham Yardley MP departed with a stinging letter of departure, sa