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Wes Streeting makes a break for it
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Wes Streeting is 'preparing to resign and trigger a leadership contest' after showdown talks with embattled Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. LBC's Natasha Clark joins Shelagh Fogarty to make sense of it all.
The health secretary confronted Sir Keir during a 16 minute showdown in Downing Street ahead of the King's Speech. After the meeting stony-faced Mr Streeting left No10 without commenting to waiting reporters.
Allies of Mr Streeting told The Times that he is “going to go for it”. They said that he is likely to resign on Thursday and mount a formal challenge for the leadership.
One Streeting ally told the newspaper: “He is going to go for it. He’s going tomorrow.”
The talks with Streeting, seen as one of the key rivals for the Labour leadership, come after Sir Keir has so far managed to see off an immediate threat this week despite ministerial resignations and at least 80 MPs calling for him to quit.
But on Wednesday morning, unions pulled their support, saying it is clear that Sir Keir will not lead Labour into the next election.
Sir Keir’s camp has suggested there is no consensus in Labour about having a leadership contest.
Earlier, cabinet office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds told Breakfast with Nick Ferrari that the pair were simply getting a coffee and that they work "very well together".
Mr Thomas-Symonds told Ferrari: “I understand they're going in - he's going in for a coffee at Number 10.
"I have to tell you, Nick, when I was around last night, I didn't get a coffee, so I might have to raise that. Raise the way I've been treated last night.
"But look, that's obviously up to Wes. But I've seen the Prime Minister and Wes together many, many times. They work very well together, as it happens.”
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