Wes Streeting
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| Secretary of State for Health and Social Care | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 5 July 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Keir Starmer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Victoria Atkins | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Member of Parliament for Ilford North | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 7 May 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Lee Scott | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Majority | 528 (1.1%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of Redbridge London Borough Council for Aldborough Chadwell (2010–2014) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 8 July 2010 – 3 May 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 53rd President of the National Union of Students | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 1 July 2008 – 10 June 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Gemma Tumelty | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Aaron Porter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Wesley Paul William Streeting 21 January 1983 Stepney, London, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Labour | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Domestic partner | Joe Dancey (2013–present) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | Westminster City School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Selwyn College, Cambridge (BA) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Website | www | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wesley Paul William Streeting (/ˈstriːtɪŋ/; born 21 January 1983) is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care since 2024. A member of the Labour Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Ilford North since 2015.
Brought up in Stepney, Streeting attended Westminster City School. He read history at the University of Cambridge and was president of the Cambridge Students' Union from 2004 to 2005. He was president of the National Union of Students (NUS) from 2008 to 2010. Streeting also worked for Progress, a Labour Party-related organisation, for a year before working in the public sector. In 2010 he was elected to Redbridge London Borough Council for Labour and became deputy leader of the council in May 2014. Streeting was elected to the House of Commons as MP for Ilford North at the 2015 general election and resigned as the council's deputy leader before standing down as a councillor in 2018. He was returned to Parliament at both the 2017 and 2019 general elections.
Following Keir Starmer's election as Leader of the Labour Party in the 2020 leadership election, Streeting joined the front bench as Shadow Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury in April 2020. He became Shadow Minister for Schools in October 2020 after the resignation of Margaret Greenwood before joining the shadow cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Child Poverty in the May 2021 shadow cabinet reshuffle. In the November 2021 shadow cabinet reshuffle, Streeting became, following a promotion by Starmer, Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, a position he remained in until July 2024. Following Labour's victory at the 2024 general election, Streeting was appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in the Starmer ministry.