Wes Streeting

Wesley Streeting was born on 21 January 1983 in Stepney.{{Who's Who | author=Anon| title = Streeting, Wesley Paul William | id = U284028 | year = 2015 | doi =10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U284028 | edition = online Oxford University Press|location=Oxford}}{{cite news |url=https://www.ft.com/content/9f846dcf-68f7-4b21-864d-070de48eaea7 |title=Is Wes Streeting the saviour Labour desperately needs? |first1=George |last1=Parker |first2=Jim |last2=Pickard |newspaper=Financial Times |location=London |date=19 May 2022 |access-date=25 June 2024}}{{cite web |last=Whale |first=Sebastian |date=22 March 2020 |title=Wes Streeting: People in the Labour Party have got to start liking one another again. We've got to build a common cause |url=https://www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/wes-strreeting |access-date=3 May 2024 |work=Politics Home}} His parents were teenagers when he was born. He has five brothers, a sister and a stepsister.{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/labours-wes-streeting-on-childhood-poverty-and-battling-homophobia-t2v7dbltg |title=Labour's Wes Streeting on childhood poverty and battling homophobia |author=Rachel Sylvester |work=The Times |date=18 September 2021 |access-date=18 June 2022}} His maternal grandfather was an armed robber who spent time in prison, and his grandmother became embroiled in his crimes and ended up in Holloway Prison, where she met Christine Keeler (a key figure in the Profumo affair). According to Streeting, they "stayed in touch, they became friends". His grandmother was released from prison to give birth to his mother at Whittington Hospital.

Streeting's two grandfathers, both named Bill, were key figures in his youth. His maternal grandfather, Bill Crowley, was acquainted with the infamous East End Krays. He was "really well-read and well-informed", and engaged his grandson in lively discussions about religion and politics. Streeting's paternal grandfather served in the Second World War in the Royal Navy and later in the merchant navy before becoming a civil engineer. He recalled: "He was the grandad I was closest to. He was a traditional working-class Tory."

Streeting grew up living in a council flat.{{cite web |title=Is Wes Streeting the next Labour leader?|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/labour/2022/01/is-wes-streeting-the-next-labour-leader |website=New Statesman |date=25 January 2022}}{{Cite web|last=Streeting|first=Wes|title=Wes Streeting: This country needs good quality social housing, now|url=https://labourlist.org/2019/01/wes-streeting-this-country-needs-good-quality-social-housing-now/|access-date=5 August 2020|website=LabourList|date=8 January 2019 }} He recalls Conservative Party politicians, particularly Ann Widdecombe, in the 1990s "denigrating single-parent families like mine, which I took quite personally". He was educated at Westminster City School, a comprehensive state school in Victoria, London. He went on to study history at Selwyn College, Cambridge graduating in 2004.{{cite web |url=https://issuu.com/sel-alum/docs/selwyncollegenewsletter2003 |title=Wes Streeting |year=2004 |work=Selwyn |publisher=Selwyn College |issue=8 |page=3 |access-date=13 November 2024}}{{cite news |url=https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/10509 |title=MP Wes Streeting slams NUS anti-Semitism in Commons |work=Varsity |date=20 July 2016 |first=Daniel |last=Gayne |access-date=13 November 2024}} Streeting briefly left the Labour Party because he opposed its decision to enter the Iraq War.{{cite news|url=https://www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/wes-strreeting |title=Wes Streeting: People in the Labour Party have got to start liking one another again |author=Sebastian Whale |publisher=The House |date=22 March 2020 |access-date=29 June 2022}}

Streeting came out as gay in his second year of university. He was elected President of Cambridge Students' Union for the 2004–05 academic year, a sabbatical officer role. As president, he campaigned against the proposed closure of Cambridge University's architecture department.{{Cite news|last=Layfield|first=Luke|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2004/oct/29/highereducation.cutsandclosures|title=Architecture under threat at Cambridge|date=29 October 2004|work=The Guardian|access-date=10 April 2020}}

As President of the NUS, Streeting was a strong proponent of his predecessor Gemma Tumelty's proposed reforms to the NUS governance structures, which had been denounced and narrowly defeated by many left-wing groups in NUS as an attack on NUS democracy.{{cite web |url=http://www.nusdemocracy.org.uk/ |title=www.nusdemocracy.org.uk }} His election was reported by The Guardian as "a move that will lend weight to the fight to modernise the union".{{cite news |last=Lipsett |first=Anthea |url=http://education.guardian.co.uk/students/politics/story/0,,2270234,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=8 |title=New NUS president voted in | Students |work=The Guardian|date=2 April 2008|access-date=2 May 2010|location=London}} As NUS President, Streeting was a non-executive director of the NUS's trading arm, NUS Services Ltd, and of Endsleigh Insurance.

He was also a non-executive director of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), as well as the Higher Education academy, having served on their board as Vice President (Education) when he was also a non-executive director of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education (OIAHE). Shortly after his election as NUS President, Streeting was appointed as a member of the government's Youth Citizenship Commission, chaired by Professor Jonathan Tonge of the University of Liverpool, which published its report in June 2009.{{cite web |url=http://www.ycc.uk.net |title=Home – Youth Citizenship Commission |publisher=Ycc.uk.net |access-date=2 May 2010}} Streeting supported university tuition fees as president, consistent with UK government policy during the New Labour years.{{Cite web |date=26 February 2009 |title=NUS president Wes Streeting: 'Moving to the right on tuition fees |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/nus-president-wes-streeting-moving-to-the-right-on-tuition-fees-makes-sense-1632032.html |access-date=12 December 2022 |website=The Independent }}

In 2009, while President of the NUS, Streeting posted tweets about wanting to push Daily Mail journalist Jan Moir 'under a train'.{{cite web |title=Should these Labour MPs go to prison too? |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/13/prison-social-media-posts-riots/ |website=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=20 August 2024 |date=13 August 2024}}{{Subscription required}}

Streeting worked for the Labour Party-related organisation Progress for a year.{{cite web|author=Wes Streeting|title=About Wes|url=http://wesstreeting.wordpress.com/about/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111228063716/http://wesstreeting.wordpress.com/about/|archive-date=28 December 2011|publisher=Wes Streeting's blog}} Progress was a pressure group created to support Tony Blair's New Labour in 1996 and continued to promote the thinking of the Blairite-Brownite wing of Labour until 2014.{{Cite web |date=7 May 2014 |title=Exclusive: 'New Labour' consigned to the dustbin of history as |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/exclusive-new-labour-consigned-to-the-dustbin-of-history-as-progress-drops-the-label-9333746.html |access-date=11 April 2023 |website=The Independent }} Progress was funded by David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville and coincided with Blair's announcement that he would abolish the party's Clause IV commitment to old-style public ownership.

After completing his term as President of the NUS, Streeting served as Chief Executive of the Helena Kennedy Foundation, an educational charity that promotes access to higher education for students from further education colleges.{{Cite web|date=2 October 2011|title=Wes Streeting, CEO, Helena Kennedy Foundation|url=https://feweek.co.uk/2011/10/02/wes-streeting-his-story/|access-date=5 August 2020|website=FE Week}} He went on to serve as head of education at Stonewall, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights charity (for one year and six months), where he led their Education for All campaign to tackle homophobia in schools.{{Cite web|date=8 May 2015|title=Former Stonewall campaigner Wes Streeting elected as MP|url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/05/08/former-stonewall-campaigner-wes-streeting-elected-as-mp/|access-date=5 August 2020|website=PinkNews}}

He was subsequently a public sector consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), which he gave up on election as a councillor, because Redbridge Council was a "current audit client" of the firm; this forced him to choose between keeping his job or forcing a second by-election.{{cite news |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=412954&c=1 |title=The Week in Higher Education |work=Times Higher Education |date=10 August 2010 |access-date=2 September 2010}} In 2010, shortly after leaving PwC, Streeting was appointed as Head of Policy and Strategic Communications for Oona King's unsuccessful bid to win the Labour Party's nomination to be its candidate in the 2012 London Mayoral election.{{cite news|author=Jess Freeman|date=12 August 2010|title=What's stopping Oona King?|work=Total Politics|url=http://www.totalpolitics.com/blog/26763/whats-stopping-oona-king.thtml|access-date=1 September 2011}}{{Cite book |last=Streeting |first=Wes |title=One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On |publisher=Hodder & Stoughton |year=2023 |isbn=978-1399710107 |location=London |language=en-GB}}

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In a July 2010 by-election, Streeting was elected as a Labour councillor for the Chadwell ward on Redbridge London Borough Council, having stood unsuccessfully for that council's Roding ward two months earlier. He held the seat for Labour by 220 votes, winning with 31.5% of the vote on a 25.5% turnout.{{Cite web |url=http://www.redbridge.gov.uk/cms/the_council/council_people_and_elections/elections/election_results/july_2010_by-election/chadwell_ward_by_election.aspx |title=Chadwell Ward |access-date=9 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225051227/http://www2.redbridge.gov.uk/cms/the_council/council_people_and_elections/elections/election_results/july_2010_by-election/chadwell_ward_by_election.aspx |archive-date=25 February 2012 |url-status=dead }} The by-election had been triggered by a previously elected candidate subsequently being found to be ineligible to serve on the council.{{cite news |url=http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/rbnews/8183355.REDBRIDGE__Ineligible_councillor_resigns/ |title=Redbridge: Ineligible councillor resigns |work=East London and West Essex Guardian Series |date=25 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110509050817/http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/rbnews/8183355.REDBRIDGE__Ineligible_councillor_resigns/ |archive-date=9 May 2011}} Streeting was elected as Deputy Leader of the Labour Group in October 2011.{{cite web |url=http://moderngov.redbridge.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=783 |title=Councillor Wes Streeting |publisher=Redbridge London Borough Council |access-date=10 May 2012 |archive-date=24 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200424135318/http://moderngov.redbridge.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=783 |url-status=dead }}

Streeting sought re-election in 2014 to represent the Aldborough ward. At a public meeting of the Redbridge Citizens' Assembly on 6 May 2014, Streeting promised on behalf of his group that, if they won the election, they would not reduce the level of Council Tax support provided to low-income working-age residents. In May 2014, Labour took control of Redbridge Council for the first time and Streeting was appointed Deputy Leader of the council, with Jas Athwal as Leader.{{cite web |url=https://www.redbridge.gov.uk/electionresults/2014/local/aldborough |title=Redbridge i – Local Election result, 2014 |publisher=Redbridge Council |access-date=9 April 2015 |archive-date=19 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919030555/https://www.redbridge.gov.uk/electionresults/2014/local/aldborough |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |last=Hill |first=Dave |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/23/local-elections-labour-wins-redbridge-council-east-london |title=Local elections: Labour wins control of Redbridge council for first time |work=The Guardian |location=London |date=23 May 2014 |access-date=20 April 2017}} Once elected, the Labour council proceeded to cut the level of council tax support, so as to treble the amount of Council Tax paid by supported residents from April 2016; the council made a further reduction from April 2017, and made a third reduction from April 2018.{{cite news |title=Redbridge parties clash over council tax relief cuts |url=http://www.ilfordrecorder.co.uk/home/redbridge_parties_clash_over_council_tax_relief_cuts_1_4325204 |newspaper=Ilford Recorder |first=Ralph |last=Blackburn |date=25 November 2015 |access-date=10 December 2016}}{{cite news |title=Council tax support could be cut for Redbridge residents |first=Ralph |last=Blackburn |date=12 September 2015 |url=http://www.ilfordrecorder.co.uk/news/politics/council_tax_support_could_be_cut_for_redbridge_residents_1_4229961 |newspaper=Ilford Recorder |access-date=10 December 2016}}{{cite news |title=12,000 poor workers to be hit by cuts to council tax reduction scheme |url=http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/14228508.12_000_poor_workers_to_be_hit_by_cuts_to_council_tax_reduction_scheme/ |newspaper=Wanstead & Woodford Guardian |date=25 January 2016 |last=Keay |first=Lara |access-date=10 December 2016}}{{cite web |title=Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme 2017/18 |url=http://moderngov.redbridge.gov.uk/documents/s107302/8%20Local%20Council%20Tax%202017-18.pdf |publisher=Redbridge Council |access-date=10 December 2016}}

Streeting resigned as Deputy Leader in May 2015, shortly after being elected Member of Parliament for Ilford North.{{cite news |last=Patient |first=Douglas |url=http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/12961800.New_deputy_leader_of_Redbridge_council_announced/ |title=New deputy leader of Redbridge council announced |work=East London and West Essex Guardian Series |date=20 May 2015 |access-date=20 May 2015}} Whilst he remained a backbench councillor following his election to Parliament, he chose not to claim his councillor allowance.{{cite web |title=Wes Streeting MP on Twitter |url=https://twitter.com/wesstreeting/status/600587344153092096 |access-date=20 May 2015}} Streeting did not stand for re-election after being elected to Parliament, and ceased to be a councillor on 3 May 2018.

At the 2015 general election, Streeting was elected to Parliament as MP for Ilford North with 43.9% of the vote and a majority of 589.{{cite web |title=2015 General Election Results |url=http://www2.redbridge.gov.uk/cms/the_council/council_people_and_elections/general_election_-_7_may_2015/election_results_2015.aspx |publisher=Redbridge Council |access-date=20 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150522053329/http://www2.redbridge.gov.uk/cms/the_council/council_people_and_elections/general_election_-_7_may_2015/election_results_2015.aspx |archive-date=22 May 2015 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |title=Election Data 2015 |url=http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2015.txt |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017112223/http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2015.txt |archive-date=17 October 2015 |access-date=17 October 2015 |publisher=Electoral Calculus}}{{cite web |title=2015 General Election Results |url=http://www2.redbridge.gov.uk/cms/the_council/council_people_and_elections/general_election_-_7_may_2015/election_results_2015.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150522053329/http://www2.redbridge.gov.uk/cms/the_council/council_people_and_elections/general_election_-_7_may_2015/election_results_2015.aspx |archive-date=2015-05-22 |access-date=2015-05-20}} 19Jul15 After being elected to Parliament, Streeting was elected Honorary President of the British Youth Council.{{cite web|title=British Youth Council Honorary Presidents|url=http://byc.org.uk/about-us/meet-us/the-honorary-presidents.aspx|access-date=14 April 2016|publisher=British Youth Council|archive-date=23 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160423085629/http://byc.org.uk/about-us/meet-us/the-honorary-presidents.aspx|url-status=dead}} In April 2016 Streeting criticised the Labour Party for refusing a £30,000 donation from McDonald's. According to Labour, the refusal was due to the company's poor record on worker's rights and hostile stance towards trade unions.{{Cite web |last=Streeting |first=Wes |date=18 April 2016 |title=Labour's McDonald's ban is virtue signalling of the worst kind |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/the-staggers/2016/04/labours-mcdonalds-ban-virtue-signalling-worst-kind |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927193928/https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/the-staggers/2016/04/labours-mcdonalds-ban-virtue-signalling-worst-kind |archive-date=27 September 2021 |work=The New Statesman}}{{Cite web |last=Landin |first=Conrad |date=19 April 2016 |title=What an Argument About McDonald's Tells Us About the State of the Labour Party |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/mvnx38/labour-mcdonalds-the-bakers-union-jeremy-corbyn-falafel |work=Vice News}} Streeting campaigned in favour of the United Kingdom remaining in the European Union in the run-up to the 2016 EU membership referendum.{{cite news|last=Streeting|first=Wes|date=1 February 2017|title=Chuka Umunna and Wes Streeting: Why we Labour Remainers voted to trigger Article 50|work=Inews|url=https://inews.co.uk/opinion/chuka-umunna-wes-streeting-labour-remainers-will-vote-trigger-article-50-529708|access-date=24 October 2019}} He later campaigned for a People's Vote, a campaign group calling for a public vote on the final Brexit deal between the UK and the European Union.{{cite news|last=Streeting|first=Wes|date=13 July 2018|title=Streeting – No deal Brexit would be very worst possible outcome|work=People's Vote|publisher=Open Britain|url=https://www.peoples-vote.uk/streeting_no_deal_brexit_would_be_very_worst_possible_outcome|access-date=4 September 2018}}

At the snap 2017 general election, Streeting was re-elected as MP for Ilford North with an increased vote share of 57.8% and an increased majority of 9,639.{{cite news |title=Ilford North parliamentary constituency |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000759 |work=BBC News}}{{cite web |date=29 January 2019 |orig-date=11 July 2017 |title=CBP 7979: General Election 2017: results and analysis |url=http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7979/CBP-7979.pdf |access-date=2 June 2021 |website=UK Parliament |publisher=House of Commons Library |edition=2nd |location=London}} Streeting is a vice-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism, a co-chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on British Jews and a supporter of Labour Friends of Israel.{{cite news|last1=Streeting|first1=Wes|last2=Siddiq|first2=Tulip|date=24 April 2017|title=We've heard your anxieties loud and clear|work=The Jewish Chronicle|url=https://www.thejc.com/comment/comment/wes-streeting-and-tulip-siddiq-1.436660|access-date=24 April 2017}}{{cite news|title=APPG on British Jews|publisher=Board of Deputies of British Jews|url=https://www.bod.org.uk/who-we-are/appg-british-jews/|access-date=2 September 2019|archive-date=2 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190902083506/https://www.bod.org.uk/who-we-are/appg-british-jews/|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|date=23 March 2018|title=LFI Supporters in Parliament|work=Labour Friends of Israel|url=http://www.lfi.org.uk/in-parliament/}} He is also a co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims and a supporter of Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East.{{cite web|title=Parliamentary Supporters|url=https://www.lfpme.org/supporters/page/7|access-date=19 September 2018|publisher=Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East (LFPME)}} In September 2018, he held the last in a series of London-wide consultations to create the Working Definition of Islamophobia.{{cite news|last=Walawalkar|first=Aaron|title=All-Party Parliamentary Group consultation in Hainault on legal definition of Islamophobia draws in around 80 people|work=Ilford Recorder|url=http://www.ilfordrecorder.co.uk/news/appg-british-muslims-hainault-1-5701135|access-date=20 September 2018}} In July 2018, Streeting called for "targeted economic sanctions" against Israeli settlements in the West Bank in response to the Israeli government "grossly infringing on the human rights of Palestinians".{{cite news|last=Weich|first=Ben|date=5 July 2018|title='Friend of Israel' MP calls for economic sanctions against West Bank settlements|work=The Jewish Chronicle|url=https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/wes-streeting-debate-khan-al-ahmar-israel-alistair-burt-1.466600|access-date=24 October 2019}} In July 2019, Streeting was reported in the media as using abusive language towards a non-Jewish antisemitism campaigner.{{cite news|date=28 July 2019|title=Labour moderate explodes in row over MP hopeful's apology for antisemitism|work=Jewish Chronicle|url=https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/labour-moderate-explodes-in-row-over-mp-hopeful-s-apology-for-antisemitism-1.486859|access-date=28 July 2019}}{{Cite news|title=These non-Jews are fighting Labour anti-Semitism from the inside|url=https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/these-non-jews-are-fighting-labour-anti-semitism-from-the-inside-1.6530696|access-date=5 August 2020|newspaper=Haaretz}}

Shortly before the 2019 general election, Streeting told a Labour First meeting that the party faced electoral oblivion in any snap poll due to the leadership's poor handling of Brexit and allegations of antisemitism.{{cite news|last=Wearmouth|first=Rachel|date=17 July 2019|title=Jeremy Corbyn-Led Labour Party 'Destined To Lose General Election', MPs Claim|work=Huffpost|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jeremy-corbyn-labour-party-general-election_uk_5d2e3594e4b0a873f6431034|access-date=28 July 2019}} At the election, Streeting was again re-elected, with a decreased vote share of 50.5% and a decreased majority of 5,198.{{cite web |url=https://www.redbridge.gov.uk/media/7426/statement-of-persons-nominated-and-notice-of-poll-ilford-north.pdf |title=STATEMENT OF PERSONS NOMINATED AND NOTICE OF POLL: Election of a Member of Parliament: Ilford North Constituency |date=14 November 2019 |first=Andy |last=Donald |website=Redbridge London Borough Council |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127083426/https://www.redbridge.gov.uk/media/7426/statement-of-persons-nominated-and-notice-of-poll-ilford-north.pdf |archive-date=27 November 2020}}{{cite web |title=2019 general election results: Ilford North |url=https://electionresults.parliament.uk/election/2019-12-12/Results/Location/Constituency/Ilford%20North/ |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=2 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602021915/https://electionresults.parliament.uk/election/2019-12-12/Results/Location/Constituency/Ilford%20North/ |archive-date=2 June 2021 |location=London}} Following Labour's defeat in the general election, Streeting nominated Jess Phillips and Rosena Allin-Khan in the 2020 Labour Party leadership and deputy leadership elections,{{Cite web |url=https://labourlist.org/2020/01/rolling-list-mp-mep-nominations-for-labour-leadership-candidates/ |title=Rolling list: MP/MEP nominations for Labour leadership candidates |access-date=25 February 2022 |website=LabourList|date=8 January 2020 }}{{Cite web |title=Rolling list: MP/MEP nominations for Labour deputy leadership candidates |url=https://labourlist.org/2020/01/rolling-list-mp-mep-nominations-for-labour-deputy-leadership-candidates/ |access-date=25 February 2022 |website=LabourList|date=8 January 2020 }} and, after Allin-Khan did not win, subsequently endorsed Ian Murray for the deputy leadership.{{cite tweet|user=wesstreeting|last=Streeting|first=Wes|number=1231875458498781184|title=I'm voting for @IanMurrayMP # 1 for Deputy Leader. He's faced up to the scale of the challenge and told us what we need to hear, not just what we want to hear. He's a proven fighter and a winner. Every answer he's given has been rooted in our values. http://murrayfordeputy.co.uk|date=24 February 2020|access-date=25 February 2022}}

Following the election of Keir Starmer as Leader of the Labour Party, Streeting was appointed Shadow Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury. On 16 October 2020, Streeting became Shadow Minister for Schools in succession to Margaret Greenwood, who had resigned the previous day following her opposition to the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill. In the May 2021 shadow cabinet reshuffle, Streeting was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Child Poverty.{{cite web|url=https://labourlist.org/2021/05/reshuffle-keir-starmers-new-labour-frontbench-in-full/|title=Reshuffle: Keir Starmer's new Labour frontbench in full|last=Rodgers|first=Sienna|work=LabourList|date=14 May 2021|access-date=25 February 2022}} He was promoted to the post of Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in the November 2021 shadow cabinet reshuffle.{{Cite web|url=https://labourlist.org/2021/11/big-reshuffle-sees-cooper-streeting-lammy-reynolds-phillipson-promoted/ |title=Big reshuffle sees Cooper, Streeting, Lammy, Reynolds, Phillipson promoted |last=Rodgers |first=Sienna |work=LabourList |date=29 November 2021 |access-date=25 February 2022 }}

In February 2022, Streeting was re-selected as the Labour candidate for Ilford North at the 2024 general election.{{cite tweet |number=1492881748794953728 |user=wesstreeting |title=Big thanks to @IlfordNorthCLP for automatically re-selecting me as their general election candidate. Every branch and affiliate vote returned in favour. North Korean-style victory narrowly avoided thanks to just one member who voted against. Looking forward to more of this 👇🏻 |author=Wes Streeting |date=February 13, 2022}} Streeting was ranked sixth in the New Statesman's Left Power List of May 2023, described as "one of the most prominent and confident members" of the shadow cabinet.{{Cite web |last=Statesman |first=New |date=17 May 2023|title=The New Statesman's left power list |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2023/05/the-new-statesmans-left-power-list |access-date=13 December 2023|website=New Statesman }} In July 2023, Streeting apologised in response to the treatment of Rosie Duffield by Labour for her views opposing gender self-identification and gender recognition reforms – which have been criticised as transphobic – while acknowledging that the two had differing opinions on transgender rights.{{cite news |last1=Quinn |first1=Ben |title=Wes Streeting apologises to Rosie Duffield for treatment by Labour over gender views |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/28/wes-streeting-apologises-to-labour-mp-rosie-duffield-who-felt-ostracised-due-to-gender-views |access-date=30 January 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=28 July 2023}}{{cite news |last1=Hansford |first1=Amelia |title=Wes Streeting faces backlash for Rosie Duffield apology on gender-critical views |url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/31/wes-streeting-rosie-duffield-gender-critical/ |access-date=30 January 2024 |work=PinkNews |date=31 July 2023}} In January 2024, he supported single-sex wards in hospitals, with the possibility of separate wards for transgender people in the future.{{cite news |last1=Hansford |first1=Amelia |title=Labour's Wes Streeting backs separate hospital wards for trans patients |url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/30/wes-streeting-single-sex-wards-labour-trans/ |access-date=30 January 2024 |work=PinkNews |date=30 January 2024}} Streeting welcomed the final report of the Cass Review, which dealt with gender services for children and young people, in April 2024. He said that the report "must provide a watershed moment for the NHS's gender identity services" and "provide[d] an evidence-led framework to deliver that". In an interview with The Sun, Streeting stated that he no longer considers his stance on trans rights to be "some people are trans, get over it, let's move on." Instead, he reflects that "there are lots of complexities" in the ongoing debate, while affirming his continued support for transgender rights.{{Cite news |work=PinkNews |url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/04/11/wes-streeting-labour-trans-women/ |title=Labour's Wes Streeting no longer stands by statement 'trans women are women'}}{{Cite news |last1=Campbell |first1=Denis |last2=Gentleman |first2=Amelia |last3=Vinter |first3=Robyn |date=10 April 2024 |title=Thousands of children unsure of gender identity 'let down by NHS', report finds |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/10/thousands-of-children-unsure-of-gender-identity-let-down-by-nhs-report-finds |work=The Guardian}}

At the 2024 general election, Streeting retained his Ilford North constituency by a margin of only 528 votes following a challenge by independent British-Palestinian candidate Leanne Mohamad, who ran in protest against Labour's stance on the Gaza war and the Gaza humanitarian crisis.{{cite web |last1=Mulla |first1=Imran |title=UK election 2024: British-Palestinian Leanne Mohamad narrowly loses to Labour's Wes Streeting |url=https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-election-british-palestinian-leanne-mohamad-loses-labour-wes-streeting |access-date=6 July 2024 |publisher=Middle East Eye}} While she was not elected, Streeting's unexpectedly narrow margin of victory provoked media and political attention, especially in the context of the simultaneous victory of several independent candidates against Labour running on platforms critical of the party's response to the conflict.{{Cite web |date=2024-07-05 |title=Pro-Gaza candidates dent Labour's UK election victory |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/pro-gaza-candidates-dent-labours-uk-election-victory-2024-07-05/ |website=Reuters}}{{Cite web |date=2024-07-05 |title=Pro-Gaza candidates squeeze Labour vote in some constituencies |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9e9ydj215yo?embed=true |website=BBC News}}{{Cite web |last=Tahir |first=Tariq |date=2024-07-07 |title=Leanne Mohamed supporters hope for more after giving Labour cabinet minister scare |url=https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/uk/2024/07/07/leanne-mohamed-supporters-hope-for-more-after-giving-labour-cabinet-minister-scare/ |website=The National}}

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In July 2024, Streeting was appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. He became a member of the Privy Council on 10 July 2024. {{Cite tweet |author= Wes Streeting|user=wesstreeting |number= 1811085883514208483 |date=10 July 2024 |title= It was an honour to be sworn in as a member of His Majesty's Privy Council at Buckingham Palace this afternoon and to collect the seal of office for @DHSCgovuk. |access-date=10 July 2024}} Declaring the NHS to be broken, Streeting vowed to resolve the junior doctor strikes and decrease waiting times. New negotiations were held with the Labour government, which ended the dispute with Junior doctors on 17 September.{{cite web |date=17 September 2024 |title=NHS: Junior doctors in England agree a deal to end strikes |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/articles/c62rjrq3973o |website=BBC Newsround}}

In November 2024, Streeting cautioned NHS leaders that consistently failing hospitals will be publicly identified, with managers held accountable, potentially facing removal and restrictions on future employment in the sector.{{Cite news|last=Maddox|first=David|date=13 November 2024|title=Streeting puts failing NHS fat cats in firing line as he warns service is 'living on borrowed time'|newspaper=Independent|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us-imposes-sanctions-sudanese-paramilitary-commander-2024-11-12/ |access-date=14 November 2024}} Later that month, Streeting voted against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.

Streeting has said he suggested "working with the best of British business to reform the worst of British capitalism".{{cite news |author=Sebastian Whale |date=22 March 2020 |title=Wes Streeting: People in the Labour Party have got to start liking one another again |url=https://www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/wes-strreeting |access-date=8 March 2022 |work=The House}} In 2020, Streeting said he wanted to tax capital gains on the same basis as income and suggested replacing inheritance tax with a lifetime gifts tax. He supports an increase in corporation tax. He has promoted the establishment of a Good Work Commission to bring together the relevant stakeholders to negotiate a new employment rights settlement.

Although Streeting is considered to be on the right of the Labour Party, he said in 2022 he objected to being labelled a Blairite: "There's no future for the Labour party if it's locked in a battle between two competing visions of the past. I don't like being pigeonholed." Following his election, Streeting was described as a "long-time critic" of Jeremy Corbyn, who was leader of the Labour Party from 2015 until 2020. He accused Corbyn of a "flat-footed and lackadaisical attitude" to tackling antisemitism, which was "simply unacceptable".{{cite news |last=Helm |first=Toby |date=28 May 2016 |title=Jeremy Corbyn 'failed to reply' to Israeli Labour on fears of antisemitism |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/28/jeremy-corbyn-failed-reply-israel-left-antisemitism-ken-livingstone |access-date=20 April 2017 |work=The Observer |publisher=Guardian News and Media}} Streeting was among the 70 per cent of Labour MPs who nominated Owen Smith in the 2016 party leadership election.{{cite web |date=20 July 2016 |title=Owen Smith nominated by 70% of Labour MPs |url=https://www.itv.com/news/2016-07-20/owen-smith-nominated-by-70-per-cent-of-labour-mps/ |access-date=24 October 2019 |website=ITV}} In 2022, Streeting said, "I always thought that Jeremy Corbyn was unelectable and there was a fundamental moral objection to where he was on anti-Semitism."

Streeting is pro-devolution, supporting the idea of providing local authorities with greater control over public policy.

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Streeting campaigned in favour of the United Kingdom remaining in the European Union (EU) in the run-up to the 2016 EU membership referendum. In 2018, he stated that a hard Brexit would address voters' concerns regarding sovereignty and migration but would provoke significant economic harm.{{cite news|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/the-staggers/2018/10/we-social-democrats-need-to-be-honest-about-why-we-keep-losing-and-how-we |title=We social democrats need to be honest about why we keep losing - and how we can win again |author=Wes Streeting |work=The New Statesman |date=12 October 2018 |access-date=29 June 2022}} Streeting appeared in The Sun and tweeted a link to the article saying he would be "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime". On immigration, in 2018, Streeting said: "I regularly make the point that we need better education and training for our own people, but we should be honest with our country that we also rely on attracting people from overseas, particularly with our ageing population and shrinking working age population."{{cite news|url=https://www.wesstreeting.org/news/2018/12/19/wes-streeting-slams-immigration-proposals/ |title=Wes Streeting Slams Immigration Proposals |author=Wes Streeting |publisher=Labour Party |date=19 December 2018 |access-date=15 June 2022}}

On health, in December 2021, in response to growing waiting times in the National Health Service (NHS), Streeting said the way to reduce waiting times was better pay and conditions, while keeping a check on the six figure salaries of managers and management consultants. Following a visit to Israel in May 2022, Streeting suggested that the UK should embrace new technologies in the health sector that are commonplace in Israel to improve outcomes.{{cite news|url=https://www.lfi.org.uk/shadow-health-secretary-wes-streeting-israels-hospital-and-treatment-technology-is-10-years-ahead-of-nhs/ |title=Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting: Israel's Hospital and Treatment Technology is 10 Years Ahead of NHS |author=Wes Streeting |publisher=Labour Friends of Israel |date=19 May 2022 |access-date=29 June 2022}} In January 2022, Streeting said that he supported the use of private providers in the NHS to cut waiting lists.{{Cite news |date=7 January 2022 |title=Labour would use private providers to cut NHS waiting lists, says Streeting |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-59910107 |access-date=11 April 2023}} In June 2023, Streeting said that the NHS requires three big shifts: "from an excessive focus on hospital care to more focus on neighbourhood and community services; from an analogue service to one that embraces the technological revolution; and from sickness to prevention."{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/17/wes-streeting-labour-prime-minister-ambitions |title=Wes Streeting says he has ambitions to become prime minister |author=Rowena Mason and Simon Hattenstone |work=The Guardian |date=17 June 2023 |access-date=17 June 2023}} In January 2024, he also defended "nanny state" reforms, saying Labour would not "stand by while children become fatter and unhealthier".{{Cite web |title=Labour 'wont stand by while children become fatter', Streeting says, in defence of 'nanny state' reforms |url=https://news.sky.com/story/labour-wont-stand-by-while-children-become-fatter-streeting-says-in-defence-of-nanny-state-reforms-13046290}}

Streeting is opposed to legislation on assisted dying, announcing in October 2024 that he would be voting against Kim Leadbeater's Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. The Labour government gave its MPs a free vote on the legislation, and Streeting said he was concerned the current state of palliative care meant patients could feel 'guilt-tripped' into ending their lives.{{Cite news |last=Zeffman |first=Henry |date=29 October 2024 |title=Assisted dying could lead to coercion - Streeting |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx276lwn6n2o.amp}} He attracted criticism from some colleagues including Harriet Harman{{Cite news |last=Helm |first=Toby |date=17 November 2024 |title=Cancel study into the cost to NHS of assisted dying, Harman tells Streeting |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/17/cancel-study-into-the-cost-to-nhs-of-assisted-dying-harman-tells-streeting |work=The Guardian}} for ordering a review of the costs of assisted dying, warning that it would “come at the expense of other choices”. {{Cite news |date=13 November 2024 |title=Assisted dying law would hit other NHS care - Streeting |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cew2jj94zwyo.amp |work=BBC News}}

Streeting has also strongly criticised those campaigning against same-sex education in schools.{{cite news|last=West|first=Amy|date=8 June 2019|title=Labour MP criticises colleague for supporting anti-LGBT education protesters: 'There must be no place for hatred'|work=Pink News|url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/06/08/labour-wes-streeting-roger-godsiff-anderton-park-protesters-lgbt-education/|access-date=24 October 2019}}{{Cite web|date=13 June 2019|title=Gay MP Wes Streeting: 'Parents cannot pick and choose which parts of the Equality Act should apply'|url=https://gaytimes.co.uk/originals/123276/gay-mp-wes-streeting-parents-cannot-pick-and-choose-which-parts-of-the-equality-act-should-apply/|access-date=5 August 2020|website=Gay Times|archive-date=8 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190708002603/https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/originals/123276/gay-mp-wes-streeting-parents-cannot-pick-and-choose-which-parts-of-the-equality-act-should-apply/|url-status=dead}} When asked if transgender women can be women on a Talkradio interview show in 2024, he was applauded by Julia Hartley-Brewer for his response, stating: "Men have penises, women have vaginas; here ends my biology lesson."

In January 2024, he said transgender women should not be allowed on women's wards in hospitals. In the months leading up to the 2024 general election, Streeting also faced criticism from the LGBT community for saying that he regrets once saying that "trans women are women, trans men are men". He has also said it was wrong to claim that gender-critical feminists are "bigoted", and apologised to Canterbury MP Rosie Duffield, who has become known for her gender-critical views.{{Cite web|date=5 July 2024|title=Gay Labour MP Wes Streeting becomes health secretary|url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/05/gay-mp-wes-streeting-labour-health-secretary/|access-date=20 July 2024|website=Pink News}} After the 2024 general election, Streeting defended and upheld the previous Conservative Government's ban on private prescriptions of puberty blockers exclusively for transgender youth,{{Cite web|date=16 July 2024|title=Labour's Wes Streeting faces backlash from own MPs as he defends Tory ban on puberty blockers |url=https://www.attitude.co.uk/culture/wes-streeting-puberty-blockers-469741/|access-date=20 July 2024|website=Attitude}} and announced an indefinite ban of puberty blocker prescriptions for transgender under-18s in both the NHS and private sector in December of the same year.{{Cite web |date=2024-12-11 |title=Puberty blockers: Indefinite ban to be introduced |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly2z0gx3p5o |access-date=2024-12-12 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB}}

In February 2025, it was revealed by QueerAF that Streeting had met with members of Bayswater Support Group.{{Cite web |date=2025-02-01 |title=Revealed: Streeting met with and expressed sympathy for pro-conversion therapy parents group Bayswater |url=https://www.wearequeeraf.com/revealed-streeting-met-with-and-expressed-sympathy-for-pro-conversion-therapy-parents-group-bayswater/ |access-date=2025-04-11 |website=QueerAF |language=en}} The group is known for its extreme anti-trans positions, promoting the conversion therapy manual, Desist, Detrans and Detox on its website.{{Cite web |title=Transition – Bayswater Support |url=https://www.bayswatersupport.org.uk/book-category/transition/?wbg_author_s=Maria+Keffler |access-date=2025-04-11 |language=en-US}} An investigation by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism in July 2024 outlined various kinds of child abuse and conversion practices parents admit to in attempts to stop their children from being trans, including destroying their clothing, medication and electronic devices.{{Cite web |title=‘One day they may thank us for that “abuse”’: Inside the Bayswater… |url=https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-07-02/one-day-they-may-thank-us-for-that-abuse-inside-the-bayswater-support-group/ |access-date=2025-04-11 |website=TBIJ |language=en}}

In a video filmed before the 2024 general election, Streeting expressed sympathy with the parents, whose "traumatic" experiences he said "really stuck with me".{{Cite web |date=2025-02-01 |title=Revealed: Streeting met with and expressed sympathy for pro-conversion therapy parents group Bayswater |url=https://www.wearequeeraf.com/revealed-streeting-met-with-and-expressed-sympathy-for-pro-conversion-therapy-parents-group-bayswater/ |access-date=2025-04-11 |website=QueerAF |language=en}} He again met with representatives of Bayswater Support Group, along with several other anti-trans hate groups, on 31st July 2024, after TBIJ had revealed the abuse that members of Bayswater engage in. Streeting has refused to comment on his public association with Bayswater Support Group.{{Cite web |title=Chili sauce in mascara: Wes Streeting's complicity in conversion abuse |url=https://transsafety.network/posts/chili-sauce-in-mascara-wes-streeting-complicity-conversion-abuse/ |access-date=2025-04-11 |website=transsafety.network |language=en}}

Trans Kids Deserve Better, a group of teenage trans activists, has tried to meet with Streeting several times to argue for their rights to access healthcare but he has refused to speak to the group. They have been leaving a paper coffin outside his consituency office every day since August 2024 to protest the ban on puberty blockers.{{Cite web |title=Instagram |url=https://www.instagram.com/kidsaredyingwes/ |access-date=2025-04-11 |website=www.instagram.com}} On 25th March 2025, two members of the group tried to confront Streeting when he was on stage at a Guardian Live event. They were escorted out of the venue.{{Cite web |title=Teenage trans activists confront Wes Streeting |url=https://transkidsdeservebetter.org/teenage-trans-activists-confront-wes-streeting |access-date=2025-04-11 |website=Trans Kids Deserve Better |language=af}}

In April 2025, after bring confronted by protesters who oppose NHS privatisation and restrictions on trans healthcare at a trade union conference in Liverpool, Streeting apologised for the "fear and anxiety" caused by the ban on puberty blockers for trans kids, but claimed he was just following clinical advice.{{Cite web |date=2025-04-09 |title=Streeting ‘genuinely sorry’ for ‘fear and anxiety’ caused by puberty blocker ban |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/wes-streeting-health-secretary-liverpool-conservative-lgbt-community-b2730216.html |access-date=2025-04-11 |website=The Independent |language=en}}

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Streeting lives in Redbridge, London, with Joe Dancey, a communications and public affairs adviser.{{cite web|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/161121/streeting_wes.htm|title=Streeting, Wes (Ilford North)|work=The Register of Members' Financial Interests|publisher=House of Commons|date=23 November 2016|access-date=14 May 2021}}{{Cite web |last=November 2023 |first=Jonathan Owen 08 |title=More PR professionals bidding to become Labour MPs |url=https://www.prweek.com/article/1846913?utm_source=website&utm_medium=social |access-date=2024-07-04 |website=www.prweek.com |language=en}} In October 2023, Dancey was selected as Labour's prospective parliamentary candidate for Stockton West at the 2024 general election{{Cite web |date=4 October 2023 |title=Labour selects candidate to stand in new Teesside seat at next general election |url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/23831987.labour-chooses-joe-dancey-contest-stockton-west-seat/ |access-date=4 October 2023 |website=The Northern Echo }} although was unsuccessful.{{Cite web |date=5 July 2024 |title=General election: Matt Vickers re-elected as last Conservative MP standing on Teesside |url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/general-election-matt-vickers-elected-062817454.html |access-date=5 July 2024 |website=Yahoo News}}{{Cite web |date=5 July 2024 |title=Labour sweeps North East as general election results declared: A rare win for Tories on Teesside|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9wvk9pn3r4t |access-date=5 July 2024 |website=BBC News}} Streeting, who is a practising Anglican, has said his faith is "about compassion, not walking by on the other side", and that it caused serious problems when it came to his sexuality: "My faith was a really big obstacle to accepting myself ... I spent many years choosing not to be gay." He has been engaged to Joe Dancey since 2013.

In May 2021, Streeting revealed he had been diagnosed with kidney cancer{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-57113389|title=Labour MP Wes Streeting diagnosed with kidney cancer|work=BBC News|date=14 May 2021}} and would be stepping back from frontline politics while he received treatment for it.{{Cite web|date=14 May 2021|title=Labour MP Wes Streeting diagnosed with kidney cancer|url=http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/may/14/labour-mp-wes-streeting-diagnosed-with-kidney-cancer|access-date=9 June 2021|website=The Guardian}} He had received a phone call from his urologist informing him that tests, initially for kidney stones, revealed he had kidney cancer. He was on a campaign visit at the time. However, because the cancer was noticed early, his prognosis was good even though he needed surgery to remove the kidney. On 27 July 2021, Streeting announced that he had been declared cancer-free, following an operation to remove one of his kidneys.{{Cite web|date=27 July 2021|title=Labour MP Wes Streeting 'over the moon' to be cancer free after successful operation|url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/07/27/labour-wes-streeting-kidney-cancer/|access-date=28 July 2021|website=PinkNews}}

Streeting published his memoir One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry-Up, in June 2023. The book received generally positive reviews. Rachel Cooke of The Observer described the book as "both a little bit boring and unexpectedly fascinating".{{cite web |last1=Cooke |first1=Rachel |title=One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up by Wes Streeting review – memoir by a man on the move |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/27/one-boy-two-bills-and-a-fry-up-review-wes-streeting-shadow-health-secretary-memoir |website=The Observer |access-date=10 August 2023 |date=27 June 2023}} Jason Cowley of The Sunday Times praised Streeting for telling "his story with emotional intelligence. He is never self-aggrandising, yet part of his appeal is his naked ambition; in a recent interview he was unequivocal about wanting one day to be prime minister. This is the self-made East End boy speaking."{{Cite web |last=Cowley |first=Jason |author-link=Jason Cowley (journalist) |date=2024-06-05 |title=One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up by Wes Streeting — he scares Tories |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/one-boy-two-bills-and-a-fry-up-by-wes-streeting-review-nxmjn99z6 |access-date=2024-06-05 |website=The Sunday Times |language=en}} Robert Colls of Literary Review was more critical, writing that "There are few ideas here that might take us deeper or wider. Streeting is a self-confessed Christian geek who never stopped reading and who wore his school merit badges with pride, but I was left searching for the intellect on which all his achievements were built. Maybe it will be in the next book."{{Cite web |last=Colls |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Colls |date=2024-06-05 |title=From Wapping to Westminster |url=https://literaryreview.co.uk/from-wapping-to-westminster |access-date=2024-06-05 |website=Literary Review |language=en-GB}}

Streeting was sworn into the Privy Council on 10 July 2024.{{cite web |title=List of Business – 10 July 2024 |url=https://privycouncil.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/2024-07-10-List-of-Business.pdf |publisher=Privy Council Office |access-date=11 July 2024 |date=10 July 2024}}

{{Election box begin|title=General election 2024: Ilford North{{cite web |url= https://www.redbridge.gov.uk/voting-and-elections/general-election-results/ |title=General Election 2024 results |publisher=Redbridge Council |date=5 July 2024 |access-date=6 July 2024}}}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|party=Labour Party (UK)|candidate=Wes Streeting|votes=15,647|percentage=33.4|change={{decrease}}20.7}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent|candidate=Leanne Mohamad|votes=15,119|percentage=32.2|change=New}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Conservative Party (UK)|candidate=Kaz Rizvi|votes=9,619|percentage=20.5|change={{decrease}}16.2}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Reform UK|candidate=Alex Wilson|votes=3,621|percentage=7.7|change={{increase}}5.8}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Green Party of England and Wales|candidate=Rachel Collinson|votes=1,794|percentage=3.8|change={{increase}}2.4}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Liberal Democrats (UK)|candidate=Fraser Coppin|votes=1,088|percentage=2.3|change={{decrease}}1.7}}

{{Election box majority|votes=528|percentage=1.2|change={{decrease}}9.2}}

{{Election box turnout|votes=47,008|percentage=59.76|change={{decrease}}9.1}}

{{Election box registered electors|reg. electors=78,657}}

{{Election box hold with party link|winner=Labour Party (UK)|swing=}}

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{{Election box begin|title=General election 2019: Ilford North {{cite web |url=https://www.redbridge.gov.uk/media/7426/statement-of-persons-nominated-and-notice-of-poll-ilford-north.pdf |title=STATEMENT OF PERSONS NOMINATED AND NOTICE OF POLL: Election of a Member of Parliament: Ilford North Constituency |date=14 November 2019 |first=Andy |last=Donald |website=Redbridge London Borough Council |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127083426/https://www.redbridge.gov.uk/media/7426/statement-of-persons-nominated-and-notice-of-poll-ilford-north.pdf |archive-date=27 November 2020}}{{cite web |title=2019 general election results: Ilford North |url=https://electionresults.parliament.uk/election/2019-12-12/Results/Location/Constituency/Ilford%20North/ |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=2 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602021915/https://electionresults.parliament.uk/election/2019-12-12/Results/Location/Constituency/Ilford%20North/ |archive-date=2 June 2021 |location=London}}}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|party=Labour Party (UK)|candidate=Wes Streeting|votes=25,323|percentage=50.5|change=−7.3}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Conservative Party (UK)|candidate=Howard Berlin|votes=20,105|percentage=40.1|change=+0.5}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Liberal Democrats (UK)|candidate=Mark Johnson|votes=2,680|percentage=5.4|change=+3.5}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Brexit Party|candidate=Neil Anderson|votes=960|percentage=1.9|change=New}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Green Party of England and Wales|candidate=David Reynolds|votes=845|percentage=1.7|change=New|}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Christian Peoples Alliance|candidate=Donald Akhigbe|votes=201|percentage=0.4|change=New|}}

{{Election box majority|votes=5,198|percentage=10.4|change=−7.8}}

{{Election box turnout|votes=50,134|percentage=68.7|change=−6.1}}

{{Election box registered electors||reg. electors=72,963}}

{{Election box hold with party link|winner=Labour Party (UK)|swing=−3.9}}

{{Election box end}}{{Election box begin|title=General election 2017: Ilford North{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000759 |title=Ilford North parliamentary constituency |work=BBC News}}{{cite web |title=CBP 7979: General Election 2017: results and analysis |url=http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7979/CBP-7979.pdf |website=UK Parliament |publisher=House of Commons Library |access-date=2 June 2021 |location=London |edition=2nd |date=29 January 2019 |orig-date=11 July 2017}}}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|party=Labour Party (UK)|candidate=Wes Streeting|votes=30,589|percentage=57.8|change=+13.9}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Conservative Party (UK)|candidate=Lee Scott|votes=20,950|percentage=39.6|change=−3.1}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Liberal Democrats (UK)|candidate=Richard Clare|votes=1,034|percentage=2.0|change=−0.4}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Doris Osen|votes=368|percentage=0.7|change=+0.5}}

{{Election box majority|votes=9,639|percentage=18.2|change=+17.0}}

{{Election box turnout|votes=52,941|percentage=74.8|change=+9.8}}

{{Election box registered electors||reg. electors=70,791}}

{{Election box hold with party link|winner=Labour Party (UK)|swing=+8.5}}

{{Election box end}}{{Election box begin|title=General election 2015: Ilford North{{cite web |url=http://www2.redbridge.gov.uk/cms/the_council/council_people_and_elections/general_election_-_7_may_2015/election_results_2015.aspx |title=2015 General Election Results |access-date=2015-05-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150522053329/http://www2.redbridge.gov.uk/cms/the_council/council_people_and_elections/general_election_-_7_may_2015/election_results_2015.aspx |archive-date=2015-05-22 }} 19Jul15}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|party=Labour Party (UK)|candidate=Wes Streeting|votes=21,463|percentage=43.9|change=+9.6}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Conservative Party (UK)|candidate=Lee Scott|votes=20,874|percentage=42.7|change=−3.1}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=UK Independence Party|candidate=Philip Hyde|votes=4,355|percentage=8.9|change=+7.0}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Liberal Democrats (UK)|candidate=Richard Clare|votes=1,130|percentage=2.3|change=−10.4}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Green Party of England and Wales|candidate=David Reynolds|votes=1,023|percentage=2.1|change=+0.9}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Doris Osen|votes=87|percentage=0.2|change=New}}

{{Election box majority|votes=589|percentage=1.2|change=N/A}}

{{Election box turnout|votes=48,932|percentage=65.0|change=−0.2}}

{{Election box registered electors||reg. electors=75,294}}

{{Election box gain with party link|winner=Labour Party (UK)|loser=Conservative Party (UK)|swing=+6.4}}

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{{Reflist}}

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• {{Official website|https://www.wesstreeting.org/}}{{UK MP links |parliament=wes-streeting/4504 |publicwhip=Wes_Streeting |theywork=wes_streeting}}
• [http://moderngov.redbridge.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=783 Councillor Wes Streeting] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200424135318/http://moderngov.redbridge.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=783 |date=24 April 2020 }}, Redbridge London Borough Council
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsd31Ba4m1g Interview] with [https://www.youtube.com/user/SUTigerTV Tiger Television] at Birmingham City University
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