Wes Streeting: I don’t want anyone thinking I’m cocky and complacent with NHS

Wes Streeting is one of the most prominent members of Sir Keir Starmer’s cabinet (Picture: Thomas Krych/ZUMA Press Wire/Shu)

Wes Streeting was in a sober, reflective mood – and it wasn’t because he had just finished a tour of a hospice.

If anything, that aspect of his day had really cheered him up. The health secretary was at St Christopher’s in Sydenham, south London, to open a new wing funded with part of a £100 million government grant.

Speaking to Metro in one of the building’s meeting rooms...