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No 10's bungling plotters leave Streeting in box seat
The Independent
|November 13, 2025
Aides have succeeded only in making the health secretary look like a good bet for Labour leader
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It looks as if someone in Downing Street has misjudged their preemptive warning to plotters who would seek to undermine Keir Starmer and his leadership.
It appears that top brass within Labour feared that the Budget, in two weeks, would be so unpopular that it would trigger a challenge to the PM. Selected journalists have been told that Starmer would refuse to go quietly, and instead stand and fight any challenge - and that the markets would react badly to the instability.
But the briefing war has got out of hand. Some of it was aimed squarely at Wes Streeting, the ambitious and inescapably interesting health secretary.
This makes no sense. There is no prospect currently of Streeting winning a leadership election among Labour Party members. Despite some recent tilts to the left - on Gaza and being nice about Lucy Powell - the health secretary is regarded as the incarnation of Blairite evil by too many of them.
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