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Labour leadership pitch Former health secretary [Wes Streeting](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/wes-streeting) has set out plans
Wes Streeting, could imminently launch a leadership challenge. Allies of Streeting have [denied he will move against the prime minister](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/10/starmer-faces-perilous-24-hours-streeting-readying-leadership-bid) – and said he would only plan to stand if a leadership race
plans to reform the country before an expected meeting with his potential leadership rival Wes Streeting, the health secretary. Starmer has so far defied calls to [quit](/video/newsfeed/2026/5/11/uk-pm-keir-starmer-vows-stronger-performance-as-calls-for-resignation-grow) from Labour
Labour’s losses, allies of Angela Rayner and Andy Burnham, two of Starmer’s potential leadership rivals, said they would keep their counsel and watch how events developed over the weekend. Wes Streeting was expected
Wes Streeting has insisted he can win over the Labour left, as he launches a shadow campaign for the party leadership, saying he has “beaten the odds” throughout his life and can do so again
Wes Streeting](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/wes-streeting), unable to secure enough support to mount a challenge but merrily carrying on a campaign to win the membership’s hearts, including a decidedly leftwing plan for higher wealth taxes
Wes Streeting thought to be plotting a leadership challenge. Supporters of Streeting told the BBC they expected the health secretary to challenge Sir Keir for the Labour leadership as soon as Thursday. Streeting would need
Labour MPs have said they believe the health secretary, Wes Streeting, could imminently launch a challenge. Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, is also hoping to find a route to parliament to seek
plan to grow the economy is starting to bear fruit". Then there are friends and allies of the Health Secretary Wes Streeting who expect his challenge to Sir Keir Starmer to now be imminent
Wes Streeting](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/wes-streeting), the health secretary who wants to replace him. Yesterday Starmer in effect challenged Streeting to ‘put up or shut up’ and, although some of Streeting’s allies have resigned from
Wes Streeting, the health secretary. Streeting has been clear with the prime minister for months that he is ready for a leadership contest should one take place. But he has also been adamant that
planned to meet on Tuesday, with options ranging from moving towards a preliminary set of conclusions to extending the inquiry to demand further answers from the Foreign Office. Their deliberations come at a crucial moment
Wes Streeting, was having coffee with the prime minister in Downing Street. It was a swift visit - Streeting was in and out of the No10 door in just 17 minutes. What happened in there
plans to campaign in Makerfield for Burnham, has been adamant he would also stand in a leadership contest. Streeting’s next intervention is expected to come on Wednesday, when he hopes to use his first
Wes Streeting. Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham is also seen as a potential leadership rival, although a speedy contest would hamper his chances because he would first need to become an MP to stand
Wes Streeting, some of his Labour colleagues assumed the health secretary’s chance to go for the top job might have passed for ever. “There is a risk he becomes the David Miliband of this
Labour’s ruling body from running in February’s Gorton and Denton byelection](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/25/andy-burnham-blocked-from-byelection-race-by-labour-ruling-committee), has identified several seats where MPs are prepared to step aside for his leadership bid. In a sign that
Wes Streeting who called for the prime minister to go. Other MPs have followed, including the Scottish Labour MP Alan Gemmell and Streeting’s constituency neighbour Jas Athwal. “Even in places like Redbridge, where
Wes Streeting failed to materialise despite several of the health secretary’s allies quitting the government. But the prime minister’s fragile authority has been weakened by the resignation of four ministers – three of them
Wes Streeting and Angela Rayner were buttering up [Labour](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour) MPs in the Strangers’ Bar in parliament as colleagues spoke of their “existential” fear about the crucial elections next week. Starmer, meanwhile, tried