{"id":74940,"date":"2024-04-08T08:40:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T07:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=74940"},"modified":"2024-04-08T08:40:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T07:40:24","slug":"wes-streeting-is-a-disgrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/04\/08\/wes-streeting-is-a-disgrace\/","title":{"rendered":"Wes Streeting is a disgrace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, has been writing in The Sun and winning its support for his diagnosis for NHS reform. As they note:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THE Shadow Health Secretary warns the NHS today that there will be no additional funding without the \u201cmajor surgery\u201d of reform under Labour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/wes-streeting\/#\">Wes Streeting<\/a> asks for Sun readers\u2019 backing for a massive overhaul of our troubled healthcare system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They added:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[This] would include bringing in the private sector to help cut \u00adwaiting times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Their conclusion was:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pitching himself against healthcare unions and Labour supporters, he says \u201cmiddle-class lefties cry \u2018betrayal\u2019\u201d, but he is \u201cup for the fight\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now I know he did not write the Sun's story, but he chose to talk about this in The Sun, and he used the words he is quoted as saying - because that is the way that these things work.<\/p>\n<p>So, we have a Labour shadow minister actively seeking office, declaring war on his own party's natural supporters and the NHS unions. And people wonder why I can see nothing of merit left in Labour.<\/p>\n<p>This labour leadership is a total disgrace, having sold out on any remaining principles the right of the Party ever had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour&#8217;s Shadow Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, has been writing in The Sun and winning its support for his diagnosis for NHS reform. As they note:<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/04\/08\/wes-streeting-is-a-disgrace\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,35,122,128,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-election","category-nhs","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74941,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74940\/revisions\/74941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}