[Samanfur]

I do wonder who will get health now...

Well, Rayner's not got a portfolio right now.

[mattomac]

I suppose the question now is whether any more cabinet ministers follow Streeting out the door, and if so how many, to try to force Starmer to resign, in the manner of Boris Johnson. If that happens, I may well be ending my time as a Labour Party member, as I view that as unacceptable. If Keir sticks to his guns and fights off any leadership challenge that may yet come, from Streeting or others, I will stay in order to vote for Keir as leader.

But Labour absolutely must not emulate the worst period of the Tories’ rule in this.

In two minds whether to go before or after any leadership election if Starmer is defeated, then again as Union member I should get a vote via that I think.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Streeting.

The only question that matters in government is whether we leave our successors a better situation than we inherited. Ambulance response times for heart attacks and strokes are now the fastest in five years. A&E waiting times are improving, with four-hour waiting figures also the best in five years. We’ve recruited 2,000 more GPs and satisfaction has risen from 60 per cent to 74.5 per cent since we came to office. We hit our target of recruiting 8,500 mental health staff three years early. We’ve achieved this at the same as balancing the books for the first time in nine years and smashing the 2 per cent NHS productivity target by achieving 2.8 per cent, which means the investment we’re putting in goes further and that the public can have greater confidence that their money is being well-spent.
None of this would have been achieved without the brilliant leadership team of ministers, officials, and special advisers we have established in the Department of Health and Social Care and the NHS – superbly led by Samantha Jones and Sir Jim Mackey, who has been a knight in shining armour and a brilliant leader of 1.5 million staff upon whom all this success depends.
The National Health Service is the embodiment of all that is best about Britain and our values. Thanks to our Labour government, it is on the road to recovery: lots done, but so much more to do.

Which (assuming all of this is true) is great. Perhaps Wes could reflect on who provided the money to do this, and how the tax rises necessary might have contributed to their unpopularity. Now that's all happened under the old Health structure. Wes has insisted on a new one, has been backed by the Prime Minister do deliver it, and he fucks off.

[Boiler]

In two minds whether to go before or after any leadership election if Starmer is defeated, then again as Union member I should get a vote via that I think.

Unfortunately my union - as part of Prospect - is non-aligned.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Rayner, if the facts are as reported, does seem to have been lucky. You'll be surprised to know that the idiots who were attacking Dan for the Polanski problem are once again very much in evidence.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Streeting calls for leadership contest with 'best possible candidates' - saying Labour must offer 'bigger solutions'"

The Bigger Solutions Party should run in the next election. They'd get about 80%.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This person would be well advised to lock herself in her study and catch up on constituency work. She now tells us the PM who needed to be challenged isn't actually that bad?

Catherine West says she would not rule out voting for Starmer in leadership election - despite having led calls for contest
The former minister Catherine West kicked off the Labour leadership speculation when she announced on Saturday that, if no cabinet minister launched a challenge, she would try to stand as a candidate herself.

Since then she has rather changed her tune. On Monday she said she was not standing as a candidate, but was urging Labour MPs to back calls for a contest.

Today, in an interview on the World at One, West said that she would not rule out voting for Keir Starmer herself.

[Boiler]

Spotted this in the Guardian's BTL:

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I'm surprised the Guardian let that stand.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I do wonder who will get health now...

Well, Rayner's not got a portfolio right now.

Would be a very good solution, I think. No need to reshuffle either. And not actually that hard for her to row back from where she is at the moment. "Well, Robin (Day/Oakley- Christ, can we have them back), I've always said what I mean, and we need more people in politics who do that. I saw the local election results, just like you did. If someone had come forward and said they could do better, I'd have been all ears. Nobody has. Let's all get on with the job. I'm not Wes's greatest fan, as you've probably gathered, but we've made good progress at Health. I'm very proud to take lead the Department into the next phase where we can really start to improve the structure that we inherited from the Tories"

[Tubby Isaacs]

"Angela Rayner, have you done a deal with Andy Burnham?

Robin, Robin, I'm a Manchester MP and he's the Greater Manchester mayor. So we talk a lot..

Have you made a deal?

No. Next?"