Streeting gives major pre-Budget speech on child poverty amid leadership speculation
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Streeting gives major pre-Budget speech on child poverty amid leadership speculation
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"Wes Streeting has made a major eve-of-Budget speech arguing that his party needs to do more to tackle child poverty amid speculation that he is planning to make a bid to become leader. Sources close to the health secretary denied that the speech to Barnardo's and the King's Fund was a leadership bid, but the issue of child poverty has become a touchstone for the Labour Party."
"All of that support from a loving family, outstanding teachers, and the welfare state are what allowed me to beat the odds, make it to one of the world's best universities, and to sit around the Cabinet table as part of the most working-class Cabinet in history. But it isn't enough for a few of us to beat the odds. My mission is to change the o"
The Independent emphasizes on-the-ground reporting across issues from reproductive rights to climate change and Big Tech, and requests donations to fund journalists. The outlet highlights investigations such as the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC and a documentary focused on American women fighting for reproductive rights. Wes Streeting delivered an eve-of-Budget speech calling for his party to do more to address child poverty and recounted his own childhood experience of poverty in London's East End. Sources denied the speech was a leadership bid, while he insisted that more must be done beyond current measures such as free school breakfasts.
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