By noon yesterday, Downing Street spin doctors were becoming increasingly confident they had seen off Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham. ‘Wes has bottled it,’ journalists were told, ‘and Andy can’t get a seat.’
Five hours later, that aggressive, hubristic briefing had blown up in their faces. Streeting had resigned from the Cabinet and put rocket boosters under the anti-Starmer insurgency. And Makerfield MP Josh Simons had confirmed he is standing down to give Burnham a potential path back to the Commons.
Streeting was in his Westminster office, taking calls from Cabinet ministers who had been dispatched by Keir Starmer to try to
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