Wesley Paul William Streeting is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party, he has been the Member of Parliament for Ilford North since 2015.
Brought up in Stepney, Streeting attended Westminster City School. He read history at the University of Cambridge and was President of the Cambridge Students' Union from 2004 to 2005. He was the president of the National Union of Students from 2008 to 2010. He also worked for Progress, a Labour Party-related organisation, for a year before working in the public sector.
