Streeting to fire starting gun in Starmer leadership battle – The Latest
Today in Focus
The Guardian
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🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:11.4 | There are still a lot of unanswered questions. |
| 0:13.9 | Does he have sufficient support to raise a challenge to Kirstearnie? |
| 0:18.5 | You even hear people say who might not be naturally sympathetic to West Streeting. |
| 0:23.6 | At least he appears to have a clarity of agenda and a willingness to fight for it. |
| 0:27.6 | Health Secretary West Streeting is expected to launch a leadership challenge against Kirstama as soon as tomorrow, |
| 0:33.6 | with news of the plan dropping during the King's speech, derailing what was supposed to be |
| 0:38.5 | another chance for the Prime Minister to reset the political agenda. |
| 0:42.5 | From The Guardians today in Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff. |
| 0:47.7 | We're joining me as the head of national news, Archie Bland. |
| 0:50.7 | Archie, another quiet day in a very quiet news week. In the last few minutes, |
| 0:56.6 | we're recording at lunchtime. We're hearing that Westreting is reportedly planning to resign |
| 1:02.7 | tomorrow and launch a leadership campaign following a 16-minute meeting with Kirstama this morning, |
| 1:08.9 | interested in the 16- minute length, because it's |
| 1:12.1 | not nothing. These episodes are 10 minutes and we get through quite a lot. So what does 16 minutes |
| 1:16.4 | I mean, I won't have resigned from the latest by the end of this episode. But yeah, it's |
| 1:22.1 | interesting partly because it suggests that there wasn't a lot of constructive discussion there. |
| 1:26.9 | That's not long enough to have a kind of a very deep and serious conversation about next steps for the government. |
| 1:31.5 | It feels like it's about the two of them presenting a public posture of disagreement. |
| 1:35.8 | Yes. |
| 1:36.7 | And we have since heard from allies of streeting that he intends to resign as soon as tomorrow, |
| 1:42.2 | which is a phrase which leaves some wiggle room for it, |
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