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party heading for ‘seismic’ wins in May – UK politics live Good morning. **Wes Streeting**, the health secretary, is publishing a revised women’s health strategy for England today. As **Andrew Gregory** reports, the strategy implicitly
Labour “cannot continue on its current path”, and despite some progress it was not doing enough to deliver the change people voted for at the last election. They urged the party leadership to focus
Labour party. "The UK's already fragile fiscal position means that investors will be on edge for any signs of fiscal loosening," they said. "The likely replacements for Starmer/Reeves would probably not be as fiscally
Wes Streeting,” he says. “Andy Burnham isn’t in parliament, and Angela Rayner still has [tax issues](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/18/angela-rayners-allies-say-hmrc-inquiry-set-to-be-resolved-before-may-elections) and doesn’t seem to have the parliamentary support needed to win a contest
strategy. Over 34 bills and three draft ones, Starmer set out a programme he said would “make this country stronger and fairer”. But the package, [which included](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/13/kings-speech-government-keir-starmer-legislative-agenda-next-12-months) limiting trial by jury, reshaping
Wes Streeting and Angela Rayner should all be key players in our team," she is expected to say. "Andy wants to come back to Parliament - I've always supported his desire
Wes Streeting has held talks with Keir Starmer in Downing Street as an ally of the health secretary renewed calls for the prime minister to resign, saying his authority had “irretrievably ebbed away”. Streeting arrived
strategy over how to respond and, if required, make the first phone call to a minister whom the prime minister wanted to resign. McSweeney [resigned as chief of staff](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/08/morgan-mcsweeney-resigns-as-keir-starmer-chief-of-staff) in February over
strategy to offer voters “more than better management of decline” before the next general election. With Keir Starmer [fighting to ward off a leadership challenge](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/may/12/keir-starmer-prime-minister-resignation-labour-leadership-cabinet-meeting-yvette-cooper-shabana-mahmood-andy-burnham-wes-streeting-uk-politics-latest-news-updates), the leading backbenchers from the soft-left
Wes Streeting." Another potential Burnham supporter was more downbeat. He recognised that the Greater Manchester mayor would need to stand in a "very safe seat" given Labour's polling, and that a supportive MP would
Wes Streeting attending the state opening of parliament the day before he resigned as health secretary. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters The mood among his supporters was bleak. “It’s a shit cocktail,” said
Labour backbencher, Samantha Niblett, questioning whether it could be “trusted as a custodian of the intimate health records of tens of millions of British citizens”. The Lib Dem MP Luke Taylor, who called the deal
Wes Streeting said: “Children in the UK will be part of the first smoke-free generation, protected from a lifetime of addiction and harm. “Prevention is better than cure – this reform will save lives, ease