Wes Streeting said to be eyeing up No 10 – but how will doctors’ strikes affect his chances?

Some MPs question Streeting’s framing of dispute as a ‘war’, but wider mood is likely to depend on how NHS holds up

From Jeremy Hunt and Alan Johnson to Andy Burnham and Ken Clarke, politics is littered with ambitious former health secretaries who did not make it into No 10.

The aspirational current health secretary, Wes Streeting, is believed by colleagues to have his sights on bucking that trend, and one day replacing Keir Starmer in Downing Street.