UK health miner Wes Streeting resigns in another blow to PM Starmer | World News
1 min readUpdated: May 14, 2026 05:55 PM British health miner Wes Streeting resigned from government on Thursday, blaming his decision on a loss of confidence in Prime Miner Keir Starmer’s leadership.
In a letter posted on X, Streeting said he has “lost confidence” in Keir Starmer’s leadership and it would be “dishonourable and unprincipled” to remain a part of the government.
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— Wes Streeting (@wesstreeting) May 14, 2026
“It is now clear that you will not lead the Labour Party into the next general election and that Labour MPs and Labour Unions want the debate about what comes next to be a battle of ideas, not of personalities or petty factionalism,” Streeting said.
In the resignation letter, the Labour leader added, “It needs to be broad, and it needs the best possible field of candidates. I support that approach and I hope that you will facilitate this.”
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