Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer on a visit last year.

Wes Streeting has taken a thinly-veiled swipe at Keir Starmer over his U-turn on digital ID cards.

The health secretary said he “gets the frustration” of Labour MPs left angry at the prime minister’s 13th climbdown since entering Downing Street.

Streeting said the government should debate the pros and cons of controversial policies before announcing them, rather than afterwards.

His comments on BBC Breakfast will be seen as a rebuke of Starmer’s repeated U-turns in the face of pushback from voters and his own MPs.

Presenter Naga Munchetty told Streeting: “Your own politicians are being marched up a hill ... and then been marched down again. There is going to be a real depletion in terms of enthusiasm of your own MPs if this keeps happening.”

Streeting said: “I get that frustration on the part of Labour MPs. I think one of the ways we ought to put that right is to make sure that when we’re doing big things........

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