Wes Streeting

Health Secretary Victoria Atkins spends her last hours in the job not doing it. She should have been trying to solve the eleventh hospital doctors’ strike that started yesterday. Instead, she flitted round the “spin room” of a TV studio in…

Viewers said Rishi Sunak was acting like a 'petulant child' during tonight's BBC TV debate - repeatedly interrupting and shouting over Keir Starmer and the audience. Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting said after the debate: "I think…

Top doctors have warned patients are suffering because the Tories have plunged the NHS into crisis.Labour today is setting out plans to end the 8am scramble for a GP appointment as the party accuses Rishi Sunak of giving up on the health…

The race is on, and there's just over a week to go until the UK general election on July 4. That's if the wheels of Rishi Sunak's Conservative campaign stay on long enough...With all the polls pointing the same way, Labour is on track for a…

Labour has branded the Conservative Government's move to destroy about £1.4bn worth of personal protective equipment (PPE) from a single deal as a case of "staggering waste."NHS supplier Full Support Healthcare manufactured at least 1.57…

Almost a quarter of people have queued outside a GP or dentist to get an appointment in the past year, according to a damning new poll. The survey shows some people even waited more than three hours in a queue to access the vital services…

Labour has vowed not to shake-up the decades old council tax system if the party wins the General Election next month. Senior frontbencher Jonathan Ashworth gave the promise as he accused the Tories of making up "desperate" claims on…

Three-quarters of voters believe Rishi Sunak is out of touch while less than 10% think he understands ordinary people, a new poll shows. The findings come just days after the mega-rich Prime Minister was ridiculed after claiming he went…

Wes Streeting has accused a Sky News presenter of not wanting to hear Labour's plans in a tense TV exchange.The Shadow Health Secretary hit out at Trevor Phillips after he suggested the party's manifesto did not back up Labour's slogan to…

The Shadow Health Secretary has urged junior doctors to call off their upcoming strikes and told them he'll be on the phone to them "on day one" if Labour gets into government.Wes Streeting said he was "beyond furious" the strikes were…