Wes Streeting: the UK’s next prime minister?
Today in Focus
The Guardian
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🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:06.0 | Today, is West Streeting plotting to become the next Prime Minister. |
| 0:16.0 | He's often described as the best communicator the Labour Front Bench has. |
| 0:25.4 | Friends, we are in the fight of our lives, not just for the NHS or even for the survival |
| 0:31.6 | of this government, but for everything we believe in. |
| 0:35.6 | Slick, ambitious, always ready to put himself in the media spotlight. |
| 0:41.3 | When we get things wrong and we will make mistakes because human beings are fallible, |
| 0:47.3 | you've got two choices. |
| 0:49.3 | You can either plow on in the wrong direction because you want to spare your blushes or you can listen |
| 0:56.4 | except you got it wrong and put it right. How much do people really know what West |
| 1:02.7 | Streeting is about? He does do vision. What some of his critics say is that he does not think |
| 1:09.6 | things through carefully enough before then going on to pursue them. |
| 1:13.8 | The rumours have been swirling for months, briefings that the Health Secretary was trying to |
| 1:18.8 | stage a coup against Kirstama. |
| 1:21.6 | Virmat denials from Camps treating and his insistence that he absolutely isn't. |
| 1:27.3 | This Prime Minister is a man of decency and integrity, |
| 1:31.2 | and we will all be putting our shoulders to the wheel as a team to support him. |
| 1:40.1 | But in a week, West Armour has had a serious wobble. |
| 1:44.9 | The chatter in Westminster now isn't about whether West Streeting will make a bid for the leadership. |
| 1:49.9 | The question really is, when? |
| 1:53.1 | From The Guardian, I'm Noshin'Inaqbal. |
| 1:56.7 | Today in focus. |
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