Overview
- Multiple national outlets report unnamed cabinet ministers pressing Keir Starmer to dismiss the health secretary for disloyalty and undermining No 10.
- A Downing Street source defends Wes Streeting as doing a great job and describes him as a key player on the team.
- Streeting’s spokesman denounces the briefings as incredibly stupid and points to an 86,000 fall in waiting lists and faster ambulance response times under Labour.
- At a private political cabinet meeting, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander urged colleagues to form a praetorian guard around Starmer, with attendees describing the prime minister’s closing remarks as emotional.
- The Times reports the cabinet split into three camps as local elections near, and there has been no dismissal or resignation to date.