Starmer snub ignites Streeting ‘coup’ plot on King’s Speech day
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🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Wes Streeting is expected to resign and launch a leadership challenge as early as tomorrow, plunging Westminster into crisis just as Parliament reopens.
The King announced the Government’s legislative agenda this afternoon but the big story was machinations at No 10, where the Health Secretary and Keir Starmer held a meeting that lasted just 16 minutes.
Camilla and Tim battle the elements outside Parliament to bring you the latest developments from a tense day in Westminster.
They are joined by Labour MP Luke Akehurst, who pleads directly with his friend Wes Streeting to not resign – and suggests he doesn’t have enough MPs behind him anyway.
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Highlights
- Wes Streeting expected to resign as early as tomorrow
- King's Speech overshadowed by day of Labour leadership drama
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.1 | Westreating is poised to resign after a humiliatingly short meeting with the Prime Minister. |
| 0:15.6 | It should have been Keir Stama's big day. We're here in Parliament for the King's speech, |
| 0:20.2 | but instead his premiership |
| 0:22.1 | is in total chaos. |
| 0:24.3 | Amid stormy weather, we'll also speak to one of Streeting's closest allies who tells his friend |
| 0:29.6 | back off. |
| 0:31.2 | Welcome to the Daily Tea with me, Camilla Tominy and meet him Stanley. |
| 0:34.4 | Thank you. And me, Tim Stanley. |
| 0:47.0 | Tim, Green. We're in College Green. |
| 0:47.9 | Five minutes ago, it was hailing, now it's sunshine. |
| 0:50.7 | I thought it was snowing at one point, |
| 0:52.2 | but it was actually pollen coming down on the trees. |
| 0:53.7 | It's pollen, which I now have got embedded under my contact lenses, which is pleasant. |
| 0:58.7 | And we had this extraordinary meeting between Starma and Streeting this morning, which |
| 1:05.3 | didn't really go as well as streeting might have hoped. So he was in for, we counted 16 minutes, and you and I know, because we're in and out of number 10 all the time. I'm always being thrown out. Always being thrown out. But what happens is you go in, then you have to hand your phone in and they put it in this kind of like antique cubby hole thing. And then you've invariably got to wait outside the office. So that's... |
| 1:28.3 | Possibly climb the stairs. |
| 1:29.3 | Possibly. |
| 1:30.3 | The older you get, the longer that takes. |
| 1:31.3 | And there's more Prime Ministerial portraits by the minute up those stairs. |
| 1:35.3 | So it's probably ten minutes tops that he got alone with the Prime Minister. |
| 1:38.3 | I don't think he was offered a cupper. |
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