Starmer Meets Rival Streeting as Leadership Plot Stalls

Keir Starmer met one of his main leadership rivals at a private meeting on Wednesday morning, before the unveiling of a legislative agenda that many people in the ruling Labour Party don’t back the prime minister to deliver.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting, one of Starmer’s potential successors, didn’t answer questions from the media as he arrived at 10 Downing Street to see Starmer on Wednesday, nor when he left 17 minutes later. But what was said between the two men will be pivotal for where the UK’s political crisis goes next.