Wes Streeting

I grew up in poverty as a child, my parents had me when they were very young. They didn't have money growing…

— Wes Streeting

We need to be clear - leaving the single market will put trade and jobs at risk.

— Wes Streeting

I see myself as part of an LGBT community.

— Wes Streeting

Unless we face the future with answers to the real and dangerous challenges facing our country and our world we risk becoming…

— Wes Streeting

There has always been a problem with elements of the left, particularly the far left, who revel in their self-righteousness, who love…

— Wes Streeting

A majority of voters in a majority of constituencies voted to leave the E.U. I wish it wasn't so.

— Wes Streeting

The weakness of traditional canvassing is that it prevents a real conversation with people who are, on the whole, less tribal and…

— Wes Streeting

Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer are quite right to call for a Brexit that puts jobs first, and to hold ministers to…

— Wes Streeting

We need to learn to live with Covid.

— Wes Streeting

As someone who won both a Council seat and a parliamentary seat from the Tories, I know better than most how much…

— Wes Streeting

The Conservatives have their own racist demons to confront: from the immigration policy that brought us the Windrush scandal to appalling Islamophobia…

— Wes Streeting

After Brexit referendum, our country faces major challenges. Risks to the economy and living standards are growing. The public is split.The government…

— Wes Streeting

The vast majority of Labour members are decent people, but I think there is a small number of anti-Semites.

— Wes Streeting

On housing, education and skills, health and social care, transport and economic development, local government is better placed to make decisions in…

— Wes Streeting

I'm not sure how many of George Osborne's constituents in Cheshire read the London Evening Standard, but they will surely feel aggrieved…

— Wes Streeting

It is astonishing that the architects of variable fees in Scotland should be the Scottish Liberal Democrats.

— Wes Streeting

Common endeavour, solidarity and respect are the hallmarks of the Labour tradition.

— Wes Streeting

My dad is like my one-man focus group: a Sun-reading Essex Tory.

— Wes Streeting

When I was at a tough inner-city school, drama gave me a friendship group. It's been so core to who I am…

— Wes Streeting

Isn't it obvious that the peddling of such racial stereotypes is deeply offensive?

— Wes Streeting

All too often politicians duck issues for fear of the connotations attached to the subject. Leadership, however, means confronting those issues.

— Wes Streeting

Britain deserves better than having both of its major political parties mired in controversy about how it treats two of our major…

— Wes Streeting

My nan was very active in the Labour Party in the 1980s, her politics are way to the left of mine, she…

— Wes Streeting

God, if you believe in such a thing, doesn't need protection from criticism.

— Wes Streeting

The peddling of anti-Semitic stereotypes is an insult to a community that has suffered throughout history from the use of such imagery…

— Wes Streeting