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Wes Streeting

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  1. “And he got into, I think it was a shop or a post office. He'd held a shotgun up in the face of the person behind the counter. And she'd gone to press the panic button. And he said, you press that button, I'll shoot you. And she just looked him deadpan in the eye, pressed the button, and said, go on then. And he burned because he was never going to shoot her, burst out laughing, ran off and said, only a woman would have done that. And it sort of, and me and my mum talked about this, saying, well, I think one thing I can be pretty sure of is that she didn't go home laughing that day And who knows what impact that might have had on her for years to come, it's completely terrible. Did she even go back to her? I mean, it sounds like she was hard as nails, but there are no crimes without victims.”

    2024-06-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 82. Wes Streeting: Labour, privatisation, and the NHS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Yeah, and actually one of the issues I address in the book is this issue of the glamourization. And I enjoyed some of those kind of gangster films as much as anyone else. But when I sort of take a step back and you think, is this really right that we hold people up in this way and we particularly glamorize the craze? My granddad's often appeared in newspaper headlines as sort of an associate of the craze. Actually, wasn't particularly, he knew them, but he wasn't associate. He was in with the Richardsons and one or two others. I sort of tell some colourful, not suitable for work jokes in the book about some of his gangster associates. But there was a serious point. I mean, there's one story my mum told me, which he sort of, he burst in one evening crying with laughter, just saying, only a woman, only a woman, only a woman over again. And mum was saying, what's going on?”

    2024-06-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 82. Wes Streeting: Labour, privatisation, and the NHS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Absolutely very possible, East End. One of the stories I tell in the book was when he was doing work as official receiver. And he couldn't believe his luck, because as far as he was concerned, he was being paid to legitimately steal from people and he would turn up to all these people in debt. And he didn't mind doing businesses, but it was when he was knocking on doors, looking into the eyes of, and it was usually women who answered the door and having to take what little they had, he would just sort of say it's all right you weren't in. I didn't see you and walk off. And he would, I mean, it's a bit like his work as an armed robber, you know, he wouldn't steal from his own, as it were. And in the end, he quit that job because he said being an armed robber was more honest work than being a bailiff.”

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  4. “Yeah. Apart from, I mean, he had a couple of other jobs, but he can never help himself, even when he was doing kind of straight jobs, he would come home. That was a delivery driver. He'd come home with huge pallets of fresh fish that would then fill the freezers of every house in the family, some really thick, high quality doormats that then adorn the doors across the east end.”

    2024-06-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 82. Wes Streeting: Labour, privatisation, and the NHS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “It's a completely different family. My granddad, granddad pops, Bill Crowley, he didn't serve king and country, but he did serve at Her Majesty's Pleasure. He was in and out of prison throughout his life. In fact, his early experiences of the criminal justice system were in ball stalls, approved schools from a very young age”

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  6. “I'm not voting Labour. But dad's moved. I mean, he voted Labour in the London elections for the first time ever without streeting being on the ballot paper.”

    2024-06-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 82. Wes Streeting: Labour, privatisation, and the NHS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Yeah, although my dad's vote is hanging in the air at this general election. What can this one? This could be the first time my dad votes late as general election. He doesn't live in my constituency. He's always voted for me. But my dad, when I stood for a council by-election in 2010 and I was still living with my dad, he said, I'm voting streeting”

    2024-06-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 82. Wes Streeting: Labour, privatisation, and the NHS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “I don't think that those are, or at least should be, conservative issues. Handakir's leadership, and I promise I'm not going to do loads of lines to take throughout this conversation, but I do think that one of the reasons for where we are today is when you look back at Attlee, Wilson, Blair, they all answered the three questions that stop Labour winning power. We always have to answer those three questions. And if we answer any of them with a no, we lose. So can we trust you with our money? Can we trust your law and order? Can we trust you on national security?”

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  9. “To an extent he has, albeit, when I was growing up and I used to talk to my granddad about politics even at that young age, not least because there was very left-wing firebrand politics on my mum's side at the family. I always, I've always had a strong commitment to social justice. And particularly given my childhood and upbringing, I might not have described it as that when I was growing up, but that basic fairness always kind of had ingrained. Where I've kind of got to over time is a frustration that when I talk to my dad or my granddad about why they were conservative and it would be things like trusted with the economy, law and order, national security. As I've grown up and as I've looked back on labour history, I loved history growing up, read history at university”

    2024-06-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 82. Wes Streeting: Labour, privatisation, and the NHS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “Deal with that? No, he sadly died when I was 11, which was without doubt the worst day of my life. So I always wonder how he would react. I think his reaction would have been the same as my dad's, which was taking a bit of time to get used to it, but unconditional love. So I feel fairly confident about that.”

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  11. “You know, he's also very traditional. I don't think he ever owned a pair of jeans in his entire life whenever he picked me up from school on a Friday. He'd arrive early to join us at church and he'd be suited and booted. But he'd be suited and booted to go to the square market on Roman Road on a Saturday. He might not wear a tie on a Saturday, but he would be there with his big laundry bags full of shopping, sort of carrying them down the road. He used to occasionally have a string vest on if he was at home casually, but other than that, he was very well turned out. He'd be horrified that I sometimes use one of those shiny sponges to shine my shoes rather than a proper navy boot polish.”

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  12. “Read to me all the time. He would indulge any interest I had. He would pretend the sweets I made out of pure icing sugar were delicious. He would just, I was a granddad's boy.”

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  13. “Despite his politics and traditions, he was definitely a soft touch as a granddad. He was the one I'd go to if I wanted to borrow chocolate. My dad said no. He used to do these crazy things for me, like on a Saturday morning, he'd ask what I'd want for breakfast and I'd say beef burgers and potato waffles and he'd make them like this is I think this is kind of crazy by the way.”

    2024-06-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 82. Wes Streeting: Labour, privatisation, and the NHS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “We were so close. He was like my best friend growing up. And when there was a lot of turbulence and chaos and instability at home, you know, when I'd go to stay with my granddad, that would be, that would be the best moments of the week.”

    2024-06-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 82. Wes Streeting: Labour, privatisation, and the NHS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “He would have done, yeah. I think he probably would have voted to leave the European Union. Interestingly, my dad, who's also been a lifelong conservative, he voted Remain narrowly on economic grounds. My dad works in the car, he's a car salesman.”

    2024-06-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 82. Wes Streeting: Labour, privatisation, and the NHS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “Stepney. So Stephanie Whitechapel, Stephanie Green, that's my stomping ground. On my dad's side of the family had Bill Streeting, served king and country in the Second World War in the Royal Navy as his father had in the First World War. He was very big on law and order, very much a monarchist, loved the Queen, worked all of his life. And yep, he was what I would call a sort of pull yourself up by your bootstraps working class staturite Tory. In fact, the only time he ever voted something other than conservative was liberal in Tower Hamlets to keep Labour out. So he was a staunch Tory, an Anglican, and probably the most influential person in my life and the closest relationship.”

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  17. “Yeah, it's captured in the title. So the one boy is obviously me. The two bills are my two granddads. Both of them call Bill, who I think epitomise two very stereotypical East End families, but wildly different stereotypes.”

    2024-06-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 82. Wes Streeting: Labour, privatisation, and the NHS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source