Wes Streeting's comments have raised eyebrows.

Wes Streeting has piled more pressure on Keir Starmer by comparing Labour’s humiliation Caerphilly by-election defeat to the day the prime minister almost quit as party leader.

The health secretary said the result – which saw Labour receive just 11% of the vote in their former stronghold – was like a similar seismic loss in Hartlepool in 2021.

Starmer contemplated resigning after that defeat to the Tories, which came just a year after he had succeeded Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.

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