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Profile: Wes Streeting

17/12/2022

Wes Streeting

BBC Radio 4 - Profile, Wes Streeting

The Shadow Health Secretary, tipped by many as a future Labour leader.

As the largest nursing strike in NHS history begins, Mark Coles profiles Shadow Health and Social Care Secretary, Wes Streeting.

As nurses strike and the Health Service faces winter pressures, Mark Coles looks at the life and career of Shadow Health Secretary and Labour MP for Ilford North, Wes Streeting.

Friend and colleagues reveal how childhood poverty and a cancer diagnosis have shaped the views and aspirations of the man tipped to be a future leader of the Labour party.

Presenter: Mark Coles
Producers: Ben Cooper and Diane Richardson
Editor: Simon Watts
Production Co-ordinators: Maria Ogundele and Helena Warwick-Cross
Sound Engineer: Rod Farquhar

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