Wes Streeting has batted away claims he aspires to the Labour leadership following rumours Keir Starmer could resign over a police investigation into a gathering in Durham last April.

Quizzed by Sky News’ Breakfast programme this morning, the shadow health secretary stressed: “No. I am sure that by the time there is a leadership election I will be too old and people will be looking to a new generation because after three terms of Keir Starmer being the prime minister of our country people will be looking for a new generation.

“I am slogging my guts out to make sure that Keir Starmer is the next prime minister and on the basis of the election results we got last week, a remarkable turnaround from where Labour was two years ago, I think we have got everything to play for at the next general election.,” he went on.

He was also questioned over why current leader Sir Keir had out of an event in London due to take place this afternoon.
Streeting said he had “No idea” why Starmer decided against attending, adding: “ I didn’t check before coming on because I thought it was such a trivial thing.

“But the idea that Keir has been avoiding scrutiny when he has been out all weekend in front of cameras celebrating those brilliant results we got in the local elections last week, whether or not he has done an event, his diary changes all the time, it is kind of neither here nor there really.”