Wes Streeting on Navigating a Path from Poverty to Politics

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🗓️ 14 October 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The Labour MP Wes Streeting reveals his childhood struggle with poverty and the inspirational figures who set him on the path to university and politics in this discussion with BBC Radio 4 broadcaster Justin Webb. Streeting grew up in London’s East End and is now the UK’s shadow health secretary. He explains how the influence of his mother and two grandfathers had a lasting impact on his outlook and how an innate sense of optimism has allowed him to get to where he is today, as told in his recent book: One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up. We’d love to hear your feedback and what you think we should talk about next, who we should have on and what our future debates should be. Send us an email or voice note with your thoughts to [email protected] or Tweet us @intelligence2. And if you’d like to support our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations, as well as ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content, early access and much more, become a supporter of Intelligence Squared. Just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.9	Coming up on the podcast west reading the labor MP whose story has taken him from underprivileged
1:10.2	operating in London's east end to now being the UK's shadow health secretary tells the story contained in his book
1:16.8	One boy two bills under fire joining streeting in conversation is the BBC radio 4%er just in web if you want to listen to this
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1:47.2	Streeting the labor MP for Elford North since 2015. I've got to tell you a story about we're streeting
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