Wes Streeting is preparing to resign from the government and trigger a Labour leadership contest as soon as tomorrow. On Tuesday night, critics of the Health Secretary were feeling increasingly confident that he’d ‘bottled it’. They claimed that Streeting had neither the gumption nor the numbers to make a run for the Labour crown. His detractors, at least on the first point, were wrong.

More than 90 Labour MPs have publicly called for Starmer to go, and plenty more say the same in private – including a handful who signed the 100-strong backbench letter in support of the PM

More than 90 Labour MPs have publicly called for Starmer to go, and plenty more say the same in private – including a handful who signed the 100-strong backbench letter in support of the PM

As the King’s Speech was delivered in the House of Lords, an ally of Streeting told me that ‘it’s inevitable’ that the first formal strike against........

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