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Wes Streeting: The new health secretary tasked with overseeing NHS policy

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From a family acquainted with the Kray twins to one of the Labour Party's most vocal frontbenchers - Ilford North MP Wes Streeting is tasked with overseeing NHS policy.

Wes Streeting has been appointed health secretary in the new Labour government. The Ilford North MP will oversee the NHS - picking up a health service struggling with a number of issues, including, perhaps most importantly for voters, waiting times. Wes Streeting was another Labour candidate who felt the pressure of pro-Palestinine independents. The shadow health secretary saw his majority plummet from more than 9,000 to 528 in Ilford North. He won 33.

Read more:Starmer promises mental health reformsWho is Angela Rayner?Labour to fund pledges through tax avoidance clampdown Becoming an MP After five years in local politics, Wes Streeting was elected to the House of Commons in 2015, overturning a Conservative majority of 5,404 to win the seat of Ilford North in the area where he was a councillor.

 

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