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15 April 2026

Tag: Wes Streeting

Peter Kyle appointed as shadow schools minister

Peter Kyle has been appointed as the new shadow schools minister, Labour has announced. Kyle has been MP for Hove since 2015, and has served as shadow minister for victims and youth justice since last year. He replaces Wes Streeting, who was promoted over the weekend to a new shadow cabinet-level role covering child poverty. […]

Streeting: Ending child poverty must be ‘central mission’ for Labour

Coming up with a plan to end child poverty must be a “central mission” for the next Labour government, Wes Streeting has said, following his promotion from the role of shadow schools minister. The MP for Ilford North and former National Union of Students president also said he would continue to work “really closely” with […]

‘Too slow’: More delays as lost learning expert group ‘refocused’

An expert group promised by ministers to provide solutions to uneven lost learning across the country is now being “refocused”, leaving its membership still up in the air two months after being announced. Before exams were cancelled in December, the Department for Education announced the advisory panel would “monitor and advise on lost and differential […]

Labour ‘got it wrong’ on scrapping Ofsted, says shadow schools minister

Ofsted plays an “important role” and Labour was “wrong” to pledge to scrap it without making clear it would be replaced with something better, the shadow schools minister has said. Wes Streeting told the Schools and Academies Show this morning that instead of calling for Ofsted’s demise, educationalists should tell Labour “how to make it […]

Wes Streeting appointed shadow schools minister

A former president of the National Union of Students has been appointed as the shadow schools minister. Wes Streeting, the Labour MP for Ilford North, replaces Margaret Greenwood, who resigned from the front bench yesterday to vote against the so-called “Spycops” bill. Streeting, who was previously the shadow exchequer secretary to the Treasury, tweeted tonight […]