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Wes Streeting

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

Yeah, 100 percent.

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

I don't know that this is... Is this a philosophical difference?

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

Um...

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

And there'll be other differences, but I'm mindfully as a by-election candidate, so I'm not going to say anything... Well, I don't expect you to back Rob Kenyon, if that's what we want.

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

No, no, but one thing that has always slightly grated with me in terms of Andy's argument and analysis of the country...

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

is the sort of the north-south divide.

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

Because I would absolutely agree with him.

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

When you look at things like transport investment and infrastructure, you can see that.

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

You can see that.

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

But I'd also say, come with me to...

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

The edge of my constituency in Hainault, where there are high levels of child poverty, and we're on the edge of London, so you're on the top of the London Basin.

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

You can see on a clear day into the city.

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

You can see Canary Wharf.

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

You can see the city of London, two of the richest places on earth.

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

Those opportunities feel as far away from kids in my constituency in poverty as Manchester.

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

I could see from the top of my block of flats the city of London and that was a world away from where I was.

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

Come with me to the estuary towns of Kent and you will find people who feel the same resentment towards London.

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

And the inequality in our country and the way you would find in the old cotton mill towns around Manchester.

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

And as for infrastructure, come with me down to Cornwall.

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

Come with me down to Devon.