{"id":89215,"date":"2026-05-14T16:53:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89215"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:53:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:53:33","slug":"wes-streetings-resignation-letter-and-starmers-response-in-full","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/14\/wes-streetings-resignation-letter-and-starmers-response-in-full\/","title":{"rendered":"Wes Streeting&#8217;s resignation letter and Starmer&#8217;s response in full"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/976\/cpsprodpb\/1f28\/live\/86ccd8a0-4f91-11f1-89a3-d1f559421220.png\" alt=\"A grab of Wes Streeting's letter next to a close up of Wes Streeting\" width=\"596\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Wes Streeting has resigned as health secretary, writing in a letter to Sir Keir Starmer that despite the prime minister&#8217;s &#8220;courage and statesmanship&#8221;, &#8220;where we need vision, we have a vacuum&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ce8p7p83vdzo\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Wes Streeting has resigned as health secretary, writing in a letter to Sir Keir Starmer that despite the prime minister&#8217;s &#8220;courage and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Stammer-QT.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89216,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89215\/revisions\/89216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}