Could Labour's leadership chaos make Ed Miliband PM?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
A key cabinet member, Hilary Benn, was asked this lunch time if Wes Streeting was still the Health Secretary. Astonishingly he said he did not know. Is Streeting about to launch a leadership campaign? is Starmer preparing to fight him? And could all this chaos somehow leave Ed Miliband in poll position as PM?
Later, the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner launches an investigation into Nigel Farage's undeclared 5 million pound donation from a crypto billionaire. What will they find?
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| 0:12.3 | The messages I was getting back were basically saying, hold your nerve. |
| 0:17.7 | We know what's going to happen. |
| 0:19.0 | I don't think it was that smart of maybe number 10 |
| 0:23.3 | friends of Kirstama to say, oh, where's he's bottling it? He hasn't got what it takes. He's going to |
| 0:29.6 | chicken out. He's going to do a runner. He ain't going to go through with it. He is haunted by the |
| 0:34.6 | idea. He's always wanted to be Prime Minister from when he was a young man, |
| 0:38.1 | and he is haunted by the idea that this is his David Miliband moment. The crown is within his grasp, |
| 0:45.1 | that he only needs the courage to pluck up the will and the courage to grasp it, and it will be his. |
| 0:50.6 | Just on West Streeting, is he still the Health Secretary? Can we just confirm that? |
| 1:11.6 | Again, I don't know. I'm in your studio answering your questions, Sarah. That is my question. Why don't you ask him? Okay, but are you presuming he is? As I said, I don't know. I read a lot of speculation. I mean, I read a lot of speculation. I mean, if I asked you if Yvette Cooper was the Foreign Secretary, you'd say yes. Yeah, but I mean, it is not terribly productive use of our time. |
| 1:15.6 | It sounds like one of those questions a doctor asks when they're looking for early onset dementia. |
| 1:21.6 | Do you know who the Prime Minister is? |
| 1:23.6 | This occasion, it's the Northern Ireland Secretary answering a question about whether the Health Secretary is still the Health Secretary on the BBC this lunchtime. |
| 1:33.3 | Why would that question be so pertinent if the Health Secretary wasn't thinking about quitting his job? |
| 1:43.1 | What does all this mean for Kirstama's position, |
| 1:47.3 | just as the King's speech is taking place? |
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