Wes Streeting’s resignation letter – what he said and what he meant

The key points in the health secretary’s long letter to Keir Starmer decoded

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As resignation letters go it is long – two pages and nearly 1,000 words – and relatively dense. And as ever with such missives, there was plenty of subtext behind the substance.

So what was Wes Streeting trying to say to Keir Starmer?

A somewhat self-serving beginning to a resignation message, but in fairness to Streeting, Thursday did mark the biggest fall in NHS England waiting lists in 17 years, if the Covid period is excluded.