Wes Streeting on class, trans rights and binge drinking
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Shadow Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, grew up in poverty with his single mother on an east London council estate. But if Labour win the next election, he's nailed on to be in the cabinet.
His life story - which includes Christine Keeler, finding his feet at Cambridge and coming out as gay - is something he's kept relatively quiet about until the publication of his memoir: One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up.
In this special edition of The News Agents, Lewis speaks to the Labour MP for Ilford North about class, sexuality and religion, and he asks him about his political ambitions
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.4 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.2 | It has been a hell of a week. Are you okay? No, really. Are you okay? I hate to start all |
| 0:19.6 | Holy Willoughby, but of course it's been a hell of a week in all sorts of ways. |
| 0:23.3 | And we have covered the ins and outs and ups and down to the BBC story, Boris Johnson as usual, and all sorts. |
| 0:29.0 | So we thought that on this Friday, weekend edition of the newsagents, we would give you something a little bit different. |
| 0:34.8 | An extended conversation of one of our extended conversations with politicians. |
| 0:39.6 | And in this case, it is West Streeting, Shadow Health Secretary and Ilford MP. |
| 0:45.0 | And it's off the back of what I think is one of the most extraordinary memoirs that I have read. |
| 0:50.8 | It's called One Boy, Two Bills and a Fryup, a memoir, a tale, his story and his |
| 0:56.1 | wider extended family's story outlining his journey, his personal journey from the East End |
| 1:03.3 | to Westminster, and who knows how high he will rise. It is very, very unusual to have a politician |
| 1:10.0 | like that, with a story like that. |
| 1:13.6 | And so in this extended conversation, we thought we would explore some of those themes about class, politics, Christianity and even a bit of binge drinking. |
| 1:23.8 | It's really worth a listen and we hope you enjoy it. |
| 1:26.6 | It's Lewis here. Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:31.7 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:33.8 | So Wes, the boy in One Boy, Two Bills and a Fryup, is with us in The Newsagent |
| 1:38.3 | Studio. |
| 1:38.9 | Wes, thanks so much for doing this. |
| 1:40.2 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:41.2 | Let's just start with that title, Just for people who haven't read it. |
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