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Wes Streeting on child poverty, coming out, and how he would run the NHS

Wes Streeting on child poverty, coming out, and how he would run the NHS

FromWays to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy


Wes Streeting on child poverty, coming out, and how he would run the NHS

FromWays to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy

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Length:
42 minutes
Released:
Jul 7, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Brought up on a council estate in the East End of London, the son of a single mother whose own father was a bank robber and whose mother once shared a prison cell with Christine Keeler, Wes Streeting MP owes his life to a fry up.   His working class background and the challenges he experienced growing up in poverty now inform the Shadow Health Secretary’s mission in politics, to ensure others like him have similar opportunities.   Today on Ways to Change the World, Wes Streeting joins Krishnan Guru-Murthy to talk about his journey from a Stepney council estate to the Labour frontbench in Westminster, his optimism that poverty is a trap we can escape and his vision for an NHS ‘fit for the future’ on the eve of the 2024 UK general election.   Produced by Silvia Maresca   Warning: The following contains language that some viewers might find offensive
Released:
Jul 7, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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