There were two really significant passages in the resignation statement from Wes Streeting today, and one of them wasn’t there.

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The bit that was talked about how Keir Starmer would not lead Labour into the next election but should only be replaced after a battle of ideas, not of personalities or petty factionalism. Streeting went on: “It needs to be broad and it needs the best possible field of candidates.”

In other words, he was reaching out to other parts of the Labour family, including Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham; he’s not trying, egotistically, to bounce Labour into a limited, premature contest.

The sentence that didn’t appear follows from that. It was the one going “and therefore, I am today........

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