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Politics Home | Wes Streeting Insists NHS England Abolition Is Still Right Thing To Do Despite “Astonishing” Opposition

Politics Home | Wes Streeting Insists NHS England Abolition Is Still Right Thing To Do Despite “Astonishing” Opposition

Published by Sam Flores

Wes Streeting spoke at an event hosted by the IPPR on Monday morning (Alamy) 4 min read52 min Wes Streeting has defended his decision to abolish NHS England, but admitted he can “understand why so many of my predecessors didn’t bother” given the scale of disruption and opposition. The Health Secretary insisted the overhaul was necessary to cut duplication and improve accountability in the NHS, despite critics warning that the reorganisation risks being distracted from efforts to improve patient care. His comments come after the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) think tank published a report which found that transforming the NHS funding model to a European-style insurance system would not improve performance across the healthcare system. The report highlighted the high risks of transitioning from one system to another, which could cost billions and take decades to complete. Speaking at the report launch on Monday morning, Streeting agreed with the findings, saying that the government’s approach would instead be to “invest in the NHS, to modernise it and transform the way …

Moore Problems? Maryland Gov. Wes Moore Booed At Baltimore Stadium In Deep-Blue Territory

Moore Problems? Maryland Gov. Wes Moore Booed At Baltimore Stadium In Deep-Blue Territory

Published by Jenni Sidey

Left-wing Maryland Gov. Wes Moore was greeted Thursday afternoon by a stadium full of boos at Camden Yards on Opening Day for Orioles baseball, a striking public rebuke of the struggling governor and the one-party rule of Democratic Party kings and queens running the state into the ground. Gov. Wes Moore was booed by the crowd ahead of the Orioles home opener on Thursday. https://t.co/KdJaF2jx68 pic.twitter.com/pA0p6G2z8m — FOX Baltimore (@FOXBaltimore) March 26, 2026 After years of fiscal mismanagement, Annapolis Democrats have driven Maryland into a fiscal crisis, compounded by the death spiral of higher taxes and backfiring green energy policies that are now colliding with surging data-center power demand across the region, sparking a power bill crisis for Marylanders. The end result of this epic mismanagement is extraordinarily sad: a growing exodus of residents, with net migration trends turning negative for the state as people flee to places where common sense is prioritized, not state-ruining far-left experiments. One notable observation about the boos is that they occurred at Camden Yards in Baltimore City, which is …

Inside The Wes Streeting Operation At The Department Of Health

Inside The Wes Streeting Operation At The Department Of Health

Published by Sam Flores

Wes Streeting (Photography by Baldo Sciacca) 17 min read2 hr Is Wes Streeting a details man? What do his days look like? Who does he delegate to? Sienna Rodgers and Zoe Crowther explore how the Health Secretary runs his department There’s more than one way to skin a cat, and there’s more than one way to run the Department of Health and Social Care. Some secretaries of state for health have chosen to dive into the detail, immersing themselves in white papers and policy minutiae. Others have preferred to exert control through the press office, gripping the system via the grid. The House has spoken to MPs, ministers, political advisers and civil servants, as well as health experts and officials, to get an understanding of how Wes Streeting runs his department. The portrait that emerges is of an intensely political politician – the opposite of a micromanager or a technocrat lost in spreadsheets. Supporters say this has helped him in having a clear view of what needs to be done to transform the …

Apologist Wes Huff Gives Sound Advice on the Nephilim – OpentheWord.org

Apologist Wes Huff Gives Sound Advice on the Nephilim – OpentheWord.org

Published by Sam Flores

In a recent interview with Shawn Ryan, Christian apologist, Wes Huff, delved into one of the Bible’s most mysterious beings, the Nephilim. In the process he gives some wise advice on how we should treat them. We first read of the Nephilim in Genesis 6:  4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. (Genesis 6:4 ESV) In this verse, their appearance is connected to the marriages between the sons of God and the daughters of men. This union produced children who were called ‘mighty men’ and ‘men of renown.’ According to Strong’s, the Greek word for Nephilim means ‘properly, a feller, that is, a bully or tyrant: – giant.’ In other words, it essentially means giant. They are mentioned one other time in Numbers 13:33, during Israel’s failed effort to enter the Promised Land under Moses.1 The key to understanding what happened in Genesis 6 is …

Wes Moore threatens to skip governors meeting at White House after dinner snub

Wes Moore threatens to skip governors meeting at White House after dinner snub

Published by Sam Flores

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) threatened to skip the National Governors Association (NGA) meeting at the White House next Friday after President Trump excluded him and another Democrat from a separate dinner for governors and their families the following day.  Moore, the vice chair of the bipartisan NGA, addressed the president’s decision to single him… Source link

What should Keir Starmer do about Wes Streeting? A leadership expert on how to handle rivals in your team

What should Keir Starmer do about Wes Streeting? A leadership expert on how to handle rivals in your team

Published by Sam Flores

Having survived what looked a lot like a coup attempt, Prime Minister Keir Starmer now needs to decide how to move forward. One of the biggest problems in the immediate term is what to do with his health secretary, Wes Streeting. Streeting has long been named as a contender to replace Starmer – and has made no secret of his personal ambitions. Like every other cabinet minister, he made a statement in support of Starmer after the Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar publicly called for his resignation. However, Streeting’s has been singled out for its tepid tone. Now Starmer has a man who openly wants his job in his top team at a moment when he is trying to steady the ship. Might the PM find some inspiration about what to do from the private sector? There is an old joke in the corporate world which states that when you take over as a new chief executive, your first task is to search the business high and low to find your natural successor – and …

Wes Streeting Accuses Israel Of War Crimes In Gaza

Wes Streeting Accuses Israel Of War Crimes In Gaza

Published by Sam Flores

Wes Streeting told Peter Mandelson that Israel was “committing war crimes before our eyes” in Gaza, private WhatsApp messages have revealed. The health secretary’s views put him at odds with the government’s official position on the conflict. Streeting released all of his WhatsApps to Mandelson, who faces a criminal investigation into allegations he leaked sensitive government information to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein when he was business secretary. In one sent in July last year, he said: “Israel is committing war crimes before our eyes. Their government talks the language of ethnic cleansing and I have met with our own medics out there who describe the most chilling and distressing scenes of calculated brutality against women and children.” He said Labour “need to be leading the charge on this”. ″The alternative is being dragged there with enormous damage to Keir, the govt and the party,” he said. In a later message, Streeting accused Israel of “rogue state behaviour”. “Let them pay the price as pariahs with sanctions applied to the state, not just a few ministers,” …

Wes Streeting accused of coup against Keir Starmer as plot to oust him exposed | Politics | News

Wes Streeting accused of coup against Keir Starmer as plot to oust him exposed | Politics | News

Published by Sam Flores

Wes Streeting has been accused of orchestrating a leadership coup against Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer amid a furious civil war within the Labour Party. The Health Secretary has reportedly been a crucial player in using the chaos surrounding Number 10 in recent days as an opportunity to oust Mr Starmer from the top job. Mr Streeting discussed the current political situation with Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar days before he publicly called for the Prime Minister to step down and demanded a “change in leadership” at Downing Street on Monday, The Telegraph reports. It came after Mr Streeting voluntarily published private messages with disgraced peer Peter Mandelson dating back to 2024, revealing his opinions that the Government had “no growth strategy” and would be “toast at the next election”. A Labour source said: “Today’s events were so clearly manipulated and co-ordinated by the Wes Streeting campaign, but they catastrophically failed when [Mr Starmer] bottled it [by not resigning too].” A spokesperson for the Health Secretary said: “Wes did not ask Anas to do this; he …

Sledges, bears and a hotel with Wes Anderson vibes: Switzerland’s quirkiest family ski resort | Switzerland holidays

Sledges, bears and a hotel with Wes Anderson vibes: Switzerland’s quirkiest family ski resort | Switzerland holidays

Published by Sam Flores

On the approach to Arosa in the Graubünden Alps, the road is lined with mountain chapels, their stark spires soaring heavenwards; a portent, perhaps, of the ominous route ahead. The sheer-sided valley is skirted with rugged farmhouses and the road twists, over ravines and round hairpin curves, to a holiday destination that feels like a well-kept secret. On the village’s frozen lake, young families ice skate, hand in hand. A little farther along, on the snow-covered main street, children sled rapidly downhill, overtaking cars. The resort’s mascots are a happy gang of brown bears. And there are Narnia lamp-posts, which turn the falling snow almost gold every evening. Switzerland is replete with ski towns but none feel quite this innocent and childlike, like stepping into a fairytale. South-east Switzerland map I am here for a week in an apartment with my wife and two kids, as it’s a place my Swiss partner’s parents and grandparents have been returning to for more than a century. What first drew them here? All say the same thing: Arosa …