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Wes Streeting

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882 total appearances

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The News Agents
Wes Streeting on why Keir Starmer cannot save himself or his country

And that is why, for all the grief it took and the bereavement I felt and the risk...

The News Agents
Wes Streeting on why Keir Starmer cannot save himself or his country

I felt I couldn't stay.

The News Agents
Wes Streeting on why Keir Starmer cannot save himself or his country

And it's why I just urge my colleagues to look at what's going on in the country, to look at the results we've just seen at the ballot box, and to listen to the voters.

The News Agents
Wes Streeting on why Keir Starmer cannot save himself or his country

Very much so.

The News Agents
Wes Streeting on why Keir Starmer cannot save himself or his country

And one of the things that...

The News Agents
Wes Streeting on why Keir Starmer cannot save himself or his country

has moved me and like the thing that has exercised me is the people I represent on the London-Essex border they're not just frightened of what we're seeing they're experiencing it I've got I've got boys in one of my local secondary school

The News Agents
Wes Streeting on why Keir Starmer cannot save himself or his country

who were actually quite emotional, which is quite something for teenage boys to do in front of each other, describing to me their direct experience of racism in this, one of the most diverse cities on earth.

The News Agents
Wes Streeting on why Keir Starmer cannot save himself or his country

I had one of my constituents, who's a Muslim woman, walking down Oxford Street, wearing a hijab, broad light of day, first thing in the morning, busy metropolitan shopping mall,

The News Agents
Wes Streeting on why Keir Starmer cannot save himself or his country

District.

The News Agents
Wes Streeting on why Keir Starmer cannot save himself or his country

Verbal abuse.

The News Agents
Wes Streeting on why Keir Starmer cannot save himself or his country

Man tries to forcibly remove her hijab.

The News Agents
Wes Streeting on why Keir Starmer cannot save himself or his country

I had one of my party members almost in tears at one of our most recent meetings because one of her kids was abused coming out of the local tube station with racist abuse.

The News Agents
Wes Streeting on why Keir Starmer cannot save himself or his country

This is an online phenomenon, sure, and that's a really big challenge.

The News Agents
Wes Streeting on why Keir Starmer cannot save himself or his country

But this is also happening on our streets and we've got to take it seriously.

The News Agents
Wes Streeting on why Keir Starmer cannot save himself or his country

And as for Musk...

The News Agents
Wes Streeting on why Keir Starmer cannot save himself or his country

And as for the tech brollygarks that are either complicit in their platforms being used to incite hatred or are actively fermenting it, and look at what Grok did this week, doxing the wrong police officer, but whether it was the right police, doxing people.

The News Agents
Wes Streeting on why Keir Starmer cannot save himself or his country

Now she's come under threat and her family's come under threat.

The News Agents
Wes Streeting on why Keir Starmer cannot save himself or his country

Lewis, this is the rule of the mob, not the rule of law.

The News Agents
Wes Streeting on why Keir Starmer cannot save himself or his country

And again, like,

The News Agents
Wes Streeting on why Keir Starmer cannot save himself or his country

When you see the pillars of society being shaken in this way, democracy, freedom, the rule of law, we have to act.