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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 was instrumental in forcing the resignation of the Prime Minister’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeny and spoke to Scottish Labour leader Anas Sawar days before he publicly called for the Prime Minister to step down on Monday, The Telegraph reports.

It comes after he voluntarily published private messages with disgraced peer Peter Mandelson, revealing the opinion that the Government had “no growth strategy” and would be “toast at the next election” in exchanges between August 2024 and October 2025. 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].”

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