Welcome back to Morning Glory, 21 minutes past 8. I'm Mike Graham with you all the way through until 10 o'clock, of course, and it'll be time for Julie Hartley Brewer. We've got lots going on this morning. Obviously, all the front pages covered in pictures of Rachel Reeves in tears yesterday at Prime Minister's questions. Right now, we're going to talk to Wes Street, Executive State for Health and Social Care. The Prime Minister and Wes are launching the government's 10-year health plan

to bring the NHS closer to home. According to the Telegraph, it's about a neighbourhood

health service that they want to create. Wes, very good morning to you.

Good morning. Thanks very much indeed for joining us. I've got to kick off really and ask you

about Rachel Reeves. Is she all right?

She is and she'll bounce back. I think there will be lots of people watching this morning who will think of times where something's been going on in their life and when you go off to work

you don't just leave your problems at the door. And what makes us different as politicians

is that often we're not only at work, we're on show, and that's what you saw yesterday. But

she is tough. She will bounce back. And it's because of Rachel's leadership as Chancellor. We've

seen interest rates fall four times. Wages are finally rising faster than the cost of living. And also we've got the fastest growing economy in the G7. So lots done, lots more to do for the avoidance of any doubt. Rachel Reeves is here to stay and she'll be Chancellor for many years to come. Yeah, well, unfortunately, though, she's not like everybody else because when she has a bit of a cry at work, it moves the markets. The pound dropped 0.9% against the dollar,

0.7% against the euro. And at one point, the sharpest sell-off of guilt was going on since Liz

trust's 2020-22 mini budget. So she's not really like everybody else, is she? Well, as a matter of rule, we don't talk about movements in the markets as government ministers,

but I think what is beyond doubt is that Rachel Reeves enjoys the confidence of lots of business leaders,

lots of investors, because they can see that she's prepared to make the tough decisions,

the right decisions, not just the easy

and popular decisions, and those are qualities that you need in the Chancellor. And look, as for Liz Truss,

I mean, I've never seen such a happy warrior. She was cackling away in the House of Commons while

she was delivering with quasi-quarting, a mini-budget that crashed the economy. So I know which

one of the two I would prefer, and that's why we're

lucky to have Rachel Rees as our Chancellor. Well, you say that you're lucky to have her, but, you know,

her plan, which was to get the welfare bill through to save five billion pounds, has been

roundly rejected by your own party. And so now she hasn't got that fiscal headroom that she was

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