Wes Streeting on why he didn't want Home Secretary
Electoral Dysfunction
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4.4 • 764 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Beth asks also asks him about future strike action by doctors.
He's clear in his warning to members of the BMA: "The NHS is hanging by a thread, don’t pull it."
The interview was recorded at Labour Party conference.
Remember, you can also watch Beth Rigby, Harriet Harman and Ruth Davidson on YouTube.
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| 0:00.0 | Now time to thank our partner for this episode, Amazon. Here's a question for you. Where do you see |
| 0:06.0 | yourself in five years? It's a common one in job interviews, isn't it? But not always something |
| 0:11.7 | that you get asked once you're working there. Does your employer do anything to help you upskill and |
| 0:17.7 | reach your career goals? Career development is very important to Amazon, |
| 0:22.2 | which is why each employee is offered yearly funding for training. In fact, Amazon has increased |
| 0:28.7 | funding for eligible employees to up to £3,000 a year every year. It's called Career Choice, |
| 0:36.6 | and it gives you access to courses to help you grow your skills, |
| 0:40.2 | earn qualifications and further your career at Amazon or somewhere else. How rewarding would that feel? |
| 0:48.0 | If it's time to make a change, you can learn more about Amazon's career boosting training |
| 0:53.1 | by going to Amazoncareerchoice.com. |
| 1:00.6 | Hello and welcome to an extra episode of electoral dysfunction with just me, Beth Rigby, |
| 1:10.6 | coming to you from Liverpool at the Labour Party Conference, where I've been running around for the past few days. |
| 1:16.7 | And I'm popping up on your podcast feeds because I'm about to sit down with West Street and the Health Secretary for a special ED event here in front of an audience. So wish me luck. |
| 1:29.2 | We are here at Labour Conference |
| 1:31.0 | and it's the end of what we call the Economy Day. |
| 1:34.7 | The Chancellor gave her big speech. |
| 1:36.8 | We've also heard from Yvette Cooper, |
| 1:38.5 | John Healy, Peter Carl, |
| 1:40.2 | Bridget Philison, David Lammy, Pat McFadden, |
| 1:42.7 | The Great and Good are all here West Street in. And I have many Burnham. There's a bad and the ugly on that list as well. Oh, I'm just about to make my joke. Can you interrupt? The Great and Good are all here, Andy. Oh no, hang. Let me do this again. So I wrote this joke and it's really good. And I've ruined it. Right. Let's start again and we'll pretend that none of that just happened. The great and good are all here and I have many burn them. I mean burning. That was good, wasn't it? Sweet. Don't do that. There was a grimace over there. Honestly, we should have just done the first version. My joke was much funnier. |
| 2:18.2 | All right, you do your joke then. |
| 2:19.6 | Well, I just did it, the bad and the ugly. |
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