The prime minister Keir Starmer is hoping to push forward on policy following a bruising week for his leadership
Yesterday Wes Streeting, the health secretary, published his private WhatsApp messages exchanged with Peter Mandelson. Under the terms of the humble addressed passed by MPs on Wednesday last week, they would have been published anyway. But Streeting, one of the cabinet ministers most friendly with Mandelson, was potentially more at risk from what might come out than most of his colleagues, and so he decided to pre-empt the humble address by publishing them anyway.
The full set of messages is on the ITV News website here. And here is our story, by Peter Walker and Pippa Crerar.
In a message sent in March last year, Streeting said that the government had “no growth strategy at all”.
Asked about this on Sky News, Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, said:
