Wes Streeting confirmed today that he would be challenging Sir Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership and vowed that the UK would rejoin the EU ‘one day’ as Brexit was ‘a catastrophic mistake’.
In his first public comments since he resigned as Health Secretary on Thursday when he criticised Sir Keir’s premiership as being a ‘vacuum’ without ‘vision’, the former Health Secretary said the Labour Party needed a ‘proper leadership contest’.
‘We need a proper contest with the best candidates on the field and I will be standing,’ he confirmed this afternoon at a conference of right-wing Labour supporters in London.
He also
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