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That the labour leader wanted to be the next health secretary if labour win the election. already, he has shifted the party s approach to the covid pandemic, saying that this is the year in which the country has to learn to live well with the virus. wes streeting, welcome to political thinking. hi, nick. and i m glad you added that context about the prison line. because i didn t want people to think that i d made an admission of serious wrongdoing and should be behind bars for some crime i ve committed. not yet you haven t made the admission, but we ve got quite a while to go in this conversation. we ll come to that extraordinary and fascinating background in a second. but what a year you ve had! it must feel like an extraordinary roller coaster? yeah, it has been, and i don t know how you felt when you came back from your experience with cancer, which was far worse than mine. but, especially having a cancer diagnosis at 38, although i was pretty clear from the prognosis that i wasn t ....
Diagnosis coming from some of the earlier conversations i had at the kind of testing, scanning, diagnosis stage. yeah, different when you re actually told, isn t it? yeah. the hard bits, though, were telling other people, and telling people that i love and care about. and in fact, the very first person i told was matt, who runs my office and is my election agent and organises for the election. and the reason i chose to speak to matt first was because i was processing this news, i hadn t bawled my eyes out yet and i knew that the hardest conversation i d have would be with my partner, joe, and with my parents. and i wanted to know if i could cope with telling them without breaking down. so i did a trial run on poor matt and told him that s what i was doing. and i thought, well, i ve got to this conversation, i m not bawling my eyes out. i mean, inevitably, when i spoke to my partner and my parents i bawled my eyes out. and inevitably, you are a politician, you didn t know you were abo ....
Social media. 50 respect that i see opening up on social media. respect that i see opening up on social media. so the parallelyou are drawing social media. so the parallelyou are drawing is social media. so the parallelyou are drawing is between - social media. so the parallelyou are drawing is between gay i social media. so the parallel you i are drawing is between gay marriage, where they were even some gay campaigners who said we don t want to go down the marriage route, we have got civil partnership. you see a parallel with that sort of conversation? a parallel with that sort of conversation? , ,, ,., conversation? yes, i think so. i think one conversation? yes, i think so. i think one of conversation? yes, i think so. i think one of the conversation? yes, i think so. i think one of the ways conversation? yes, i think so. i think one of the ways that i think one of the ways that parliament really did its job was that those views came to the fore of the discussion, wer ....
And she said, you won t let your dad go private, will you? that sense that going private was a betrayal. he was saying labour cannot afford to have that view? i feel viscerally in my heart the same, and my approach to private health is the same as private education and private schools. i don t like it, i don t like the fact that people have to pay for what they seek to be a better experience, but i m also pragmatic enough stop and so my head kicks in if my heart to say, we are not going to abolish private schools and we are not good you abolish arrive at health. a huge amount of time, money and legal battles trying to do something that doesn t actually make anyone s experience better. my ambition is health secretary will be to make the nhs so good that they don t have to go private. brute nhs so good that they don t have to no rivate. ~ ., nhs so good that they don t have to no rivate. ~ . ., , go private. we are having this conversation go private. we are having this conversation ....