Wes Streeting is the Labour Member of Parliament for Ilford North and Shadow Secretary of State for Health & Social Care.
Prior to his election to Parliament in 2015, Wes served as Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing in the London Borough of Redbridge.
Wes spent his career outside politics working as a senior manager and chief executive for a number of voluntary sector organisations working to tackle educational disadvantage.
An lifelong Eastender, Wes is not your typical politician. He grew up in a council estate in Tower Hamlets and is one of the few people who received free school meals to make it to Cambridge University, where he read history at Selwyn College and became President of Cambridge University Students’ Union. Wes is a former President of the National Union of Students. He is one of Parliament’s openly gay MPs.
Wes lives in Barkingside, Ilford, with his partner Joe.
