{"id":89315,"date":"2026-05-17T06:34:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89315"},"modified":"2026-05-17T06:34:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:34:45","slug":"wes-streeting-confirms-he-will-stand-if-labour-leadership-race-is-triggered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/17\/wes-streeting-confirms-he-will-stand-if-labour-leadership-race-is-triggered\/","title":{"rendered":"Wes Streeting confirms he will stand if Labour leadership race is triggered"},"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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/139\/1200x712\/secondary\/Sir-Keir-Starmer-and-Wes-Streeting-6251536.jpg?r=1750844629738\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wes Streeting has confirmed that he will run to replace Keir Starmer as prime minister if a leadership contest is triggered, and called for a \u201cproper contest\u201d to be held for the role. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/wes-streeting-confirms-he-will-stand-if-labour-leadership-race-is-triggered\/ar-AA23m1hQ?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6a095e82662c4182be6e1e23272b2c91&amp;ei=68\">Read More<\/a><\/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 confirmed that he will run to replace Keir Starmer as prime minister if a leadership contest is triggered, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/UK-Labour-party.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89315","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=89315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89316,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89315\/revisions\/89316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}