As health secretary, he called the state of maternity services a ‘cause for national shame’. Yet one in four women still report a negative birth experience, and around 300,000 are estimated to have suffered harm during his tenure. Resigning now is just another example of a broader pattern of deprioritising women’s concerns, campaigners tell Rosie Taylor

As health secretary, he called the state of maternity services a ‘cause for national shame’. Yet one in four women still report a negative birth experience, and around 300,000 are…

As health secretary, he called the state of maternity services a ‘cause for national shame’. Yet one in four women still report a negative birth experience, and around 300,000 are…

Wes Streeting has also been opining this week about the lack of radical action from the government he’s just resigned from.