Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, faced criticism for forgetting one of the party's six pledges during interviews. Streeting defended Labour's NHS reform plans, including paying staff for overtime to tackle waiting lists. Critics questioned the feasibility of funding these reforms solely through tax crackdowns. Streeting's proposal to cut waiting lists by having staff work weekends drew skepticism from healthcare workers. The incident highlighted challenges in Labour's messaging and policy clarity.
🤔...so after 14 years we have 6 unambitious pledges ⬇️ signalling that @Kier_Starmer’s ‘changed’ @UKLabour Party amounts to nothing more than the Tories 2.0 🟰 x5 more years of decline, division, betrayal & chaos. 🚨 Beware! They are not talking about their real agenda: ❌… https://t.co/t4iWRVsUFb
Can @LabourSJ remember #Labour's pledges better than @wesstreeting? 👀📝 #KayBurley SS https://t.co/bIVjHjmYcu
Shadow health secretary @wesstreeting admitted he is “never going to live this down” after failing to name Sir @Keir_Starmer's six pledges for a Labour government ✍️: @DavidHughesPA https://t.co/jQWYkbHrPV
'I fluffed it': Labour's Wes Streeting caught out on party pledges https://t.co/8BmDQZ2P4Y
🔴 Wes Streeting forgets one of Labour’s six pledges https://t.co/mKV356dBH9
'Keir Starmer's Going To Kick Me': Wes Streeting Embarrassed After Forgetting One Of Labour's 6 Pledges https://t.co/01OmALSzlg
Wes Streeting still going on about using “spare capacity” in private health to cut NHS waiting lists. Instead of boosting profits in the private sector, why doesn’t Wes just pay NHS doctors and nurses properly? https://t.co/8KJaVpPa3K
Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has said relying on migration to staff the NHS is “immoral” and “unfair” as Labour pledges to pay medics overtime for extra shifts at evenings and weekends to fill gaps in the health service @eleanormia reports https://t.co/gN2dpkUGMh
NHS is 'a service, not a shrine', Wes Streeting tells LBC, as he vows reforms to cut health service backlogs https://t.co/WqmPGZ7PPt
Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting failed to name all of Labour’s six election pledges during an appearance on BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. https://t.co/JvQyuyasIz
'I fluffed it': Labour's Streeting caught out on party pledges https://t.co/mPt1fjtkAC
'I was going to say what an upgrade you are on David Lammy, but you can forget it now you've been mean to me.' After having 'fluffed it' when attempting to list Keir Starmer's six pledges on the BBC, @wesstreeting is challenged to name them once more by @Lewis_Goodall. https://t.co/rFYYEDi16X
“Of course [NHS trusts] shouldn’t be getting rid of clinical staff” Shadow Health Sec Wes Streeting defends Labour’s policy of paying staff to work overtime to tackle waiting lists despite some trusts looking at staffing cuts due to deficits #BBCLauraK https://t.co/qMLbI7ISxc https://t.co/UJkMOFeHbt
Wes Streeting genuinely has no clue about how the NHS operates. I have worked in the NHS for over 10 years, and I have spent the bulk of that time working on a Sunday. Just like I am today! https://t.co/BMxcWKWK4W
Wes Streeting claims he will cut NHS waiting lists by making staff work week-ends. But doctors and nurses already work week-ends, so what on earth is he talking about? https://t.co/wTZbiERbW8
“The NHS is not just on its knees, it’s on its face.” Shadow health secretary @WesStreeting tells #TimesRadio he would like to reduce the reliance on agency shifts in the NHS to improve patient outcomes and conditions for staff. 📻 https://t.co/WXZ4gNpeVA @KateEMcCann https://t.co/RoAU5OL5T7
Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting tells @lewis_goodall he's kicking himself for not remembering Labour's six steps when grilled live on them on the BBC... "Don't even go there. You have no idea how hard I've been kicking [myself]... I knew that question would come up, you…
'It’s going after people who’ve got broader shoulders and who aren’t paying their fair share.' Emily Carver puts it to Wes Streeting that Labour’s new NHS reform proposals cannot be funded solely through a crackdown on tax avoiders. https://t.co/0Ytbhoraen
“The annoying thing is I was preparing for that question and I still fluffed it” Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting says he “might as well go home” after forgetting one of his party’s pledges as #BBCLauraK quizzes him and Defence Sec Grant Shapps https://t.co/qMLbI7ISxc https://t.co/0oRkYhbkZ9
Sir Keir Starmer’s ‘pledges’ change so often even his own team can’t say what they are 🫣 https://t.co/UQ6HiR9kAA
Sir @Keir_Starmer’s ‘pledges’ change so fast even his own team don’t bother to remember what they are! Like the British public, Starmer’s @UKLabour front bench colleagues know he has no plan for Britain and would take us back to square one, so they don’t even bother remembering… https://t.co/gV9noNnoyN
Basically @wesstreeting is saying that the waiting lists are essentially because NHS workers aren't working out of hours. How dare he. 👉 Restore NHS pay 👉 End outsourcing 👉 Pay off PFI debts 👉 Fund the NHS properly If you won't do the above, hands off our NHS. #bbclaurak
"We're going to under-promise and over-deliver." Shadow health secretary @wesstreeting tells @TrevorPTweets Labour are "giving a cynical public some specific things they can judge us on" with their six 'first steps' pledges. #TrevorPhillips https://t.co/fhIHlpTGAF 📺 Sky 501 https://t.co/Tsabe4u2X6
.@wesstreeting says he will pay staff to work weekends. We are already do Wes. We always have. We don't have enough staff or money. Stop blaming clinicians and commit to funding the NHS properly We don't need more Tory rhetoric. The NHS is already on its knees. #bbclaurak
Shadow health secretary @wesstreeting tells @TrevorPTweets which of Sir Keir Starmer's 'first steps' pledges can be met within the first year of a Labour government. #TrevorPhillips https://t.co/fhIHlpTGAF 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube https://t.co/Odr6J1jrL4
Wes Streeting in awkward blunder on Laura Kuenssberg as he forgets one of Keir Starmer's six pledges https://t.co/gXGZ7hyZgC
Starmer’s pledges have changed so much even his own shadow cabinet can’t remember them… 🥀 https://t.co/M7RtHsBksC
Shadow Health Sec Wes Streeting fluffs a Q on Labour's six pledges - forgetting the promised crackdown on antisocial behaviour "I was preparing for that question and I still fluffed it - I might as well go home now," he jokes to @bbclaurak
Shadow health sec Wes Streeting struggles to remember Labour's six election pledges, forgetting the promised crackdown on antisocial behaviour. 'I was preparing for that question and I still fluffed it - I might as well go home now,' he tells #bbclaurak
'What we're hearing from Wes Streeting now, it's quite Blairite, it's also quite right-wing.' GB News Political Correspondent, Olivia Utley, details Labour's plans to reform the NHS and says they are in a better position to make changes the health service 'desperately needs'. https://t.co/uyPN5iZmBl