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Wes Streeting
Secretary of State for Defence — Labour
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Latest: Defence spending will come with ‘choices and trade-offs’ – Streeting - The Cairns Post — scored 18 (lucid) on 2026-10-02
Score History
Cope Entries (34)
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18
"Streeting warns that increased defence spending will involve 'choices and trade-offs' and that 'you don't make your country stronger by making our people poorer', arguing public services and national security are interdependent."
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15
"Streeting admits Labour is deliberately withholding a date for hitting the 3% GDP defence spending target because committing to one without a funded plan would spook markets and raise borrowing costs."
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32
"Streeting claims the biggest sustained defence spending increase since the Cold War is boosting jobs, skills, and household incomes, giving people 'more breathing room'."
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18
"Wes Streeting warned that funding for palliative and end-of-life care would have to be reduced so funding could be diverted to set up assisted suicide services."
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62
"Wes Streeting told the GMB union to come back to the negotiating table and deliver the decent pay NHS workers deserve, after the union refused to re-engage with the NHS Pay Review Body."
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18
"Streeting refused to commit to raising defence spending to 3% of GDP by 2030 without explaining how it would be funded."
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45
"Streeting warns the UK would pay a 'heavy price' if the government committed to 3% defence spending by 2030 without a credible plan to fund it, defending Burnham's refusal to give an unconditional pledge."
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20
"Proposed equalising capital gains tax with income tax as a wealth tax to make the system fairer."
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52
"Lamented the £4.5bn government expenditure on walking and cycling projects, framing it as wasteful in the context of defence budget priorities."
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62
"Streeting argues Britain needs more wealth creation rather than a tax war on billionaires, opposing a wealth tax."
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66
"Defended Palantir's stewardship of UK health data while simultaneously describing its executives as 'Blofeld villains'."
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48
"Argues that the Conservative party's failures were the result of their overall programme of government rather than the fault of a single individual leader."
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42
"Accused Sir Tony Blair of underestimating the impact of inequality in his critique of the Labour party."
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48
"Streeting attacked Blair's essay for failing to mention inequality"
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32
"Accused Tony Blair of underestimating the impact of inequality on the country."
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48
"Accused former Prime Minister Tony Blair of underestimating the impact of inequality in his critique of the government."
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64
"Nationalism represents an 'existential threat' to the future of the UK and the Labour government is losing the fight against it."
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45
"The generational contract has been broken, and the state must begin fighting for young people rather than expecting them to fight for the state."
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48
"Labour is losing the fight against populist nationalism and young people are let down by a system stacked against them."
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52
"Leaving the European Union was a catastrophic mistake."
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58
"Portrayed himself as a dynamic health secretary clearing up a 'mess' inherited from the previous government through radical changes to improve patient access."
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42
"Wes Streeting resigned as Health Secretary, stating he had lost confidence in the Prime Minister."
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60
"The Labour party requires a 'battle of ideas' and a broad field of candidates rather than a focus on personalities or petty factionalism."
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48
"Downing Street confirms Wes Streeting retains full confidence from the Prime Minister and remains Health Secretary."
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42
"Proposed an NHS modernisation bill to abolish NHS England."
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48
"Wes Streeting intends to legislate to abolish NHS England."
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48
"Proposed increasing capital gains tax to fund a 2p reduction in national insurance."
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65
"Health Secretary Wes Streeting says England is 'moving away from a system that just treats illness' in announcing reform where GPs redirect patients to job coaches or gym instead of issuing sick notes."
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68
"Wes Streeting has set out a 'bold, ambitious and necessary new course' for the NHS."
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52
"Wes Streeting or Angela Rayner to seize the moment"
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64
"Mayors in South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester will take responsibility for improving health outcomes by shifting the focus from hospital-based care to community-based prevention."
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48
"The NHS is failing women due to 'medical misogyny' and the 'gaslighting' of female patients by doctors."
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48
""dropped out because of a diary clash""
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48
""Prevention is better than cure – this reform will save lives, ease pressure on the NHS, and build a healthier Britain.""