One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On

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Patient, Douglas (20 May 2015). "New deputy leader of Redbridge council announced". East London and West Essex Guardian Series . Retrieved 20 May 2015. Streeting, Wes (18 April 2016). "Labour's McDonald's ban is virtue signalling of the worst kind". The New Statesman. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. On 9 November 2022, Streeting was criticised after being overheard describing Corbyn as "senile" in the House of Commons. Streeting said the comment was made "in jest" and apologised to Corbyn for the comment later that day. [59] [60] As an openly gay politician, someone who feels very much part of the LGBT community, I want us to build bridges, not dividing lines. And I think we’ve got a government at the moment that tries to divide people and set people apart. And I think it’s surely our job to try and bring people together. West, Amy (8 June 2019). "Labour MP criticises colleague for supporting anti-LGBT education protesters: 'There must be no place for hatred' ". Pink News . Retrieved 24 October 2019.

Later, when his mum was in a relationship with a man who turned out to be a domestic abuser and finally kidnapped her, it was Wes’s nan who sprang to her defence. It was at Cambridge that Wes was finally able to be himself, and for that reason he is still fond of the city and the university. This honest, uplifting, affectionate memoir is a tribute to the love and support which set him on his way out of poverty, and informs everything about Wes Streeting’s mission now in politics. It's his Grandfather Streeting, his father's father, who instills in Wes a sensible work ethic and his primary school headteacher who fosters Wes's love of learning that enable him to start his climb out of Tower Hamlets. The school's links with a local church and putting on plays give Wes other spheres to develop himself. Wes Streeting (19 December 2018). "Wes Streeting Slams Immigration Proposals". Labour Party . Retrieved 15 June 2022.Rodgers, Sienna (29 November 2021). "Big reshuffle sees Cooper, Streeting, Lammy, Reynolds, Phillipson promoted". LabourList . Retrieved 25 February 2022. For a politician to have such an extraordinary story to tell is rare. For that politician to be able to tell it with such eloquence and benevolence is rarer still. This book is a triumph.’ — Alan Johnson What does he think now? He giggles. “It’s easy to make these pronouncements but you do have to work through the consequences to a tax and spending policy. Thankfully that responsibility is Rachel’s [Reeves].” Redbridge: Ineligible councillor resigns". East London and West Essex Guardian Series. 25 May 2010. Archived from the original on 9 May 2011.

Streeting, Wes (Ilford North)". The Register of Members' Financial Interests. House of Commons. 23 November 2016 . Retrieved 14 May 2021. Rodgers, Sienna (14 May 2021). "Reshuffle: Keir Starmer's new Labour frontbench in full". LabourList . Retrieved 25 February 2022. She kept me, which is good! And she worked really hard to prove herself as a mum and she made lots of sacrifices to make sure that I had the very best start in life. When people see the book’s title, they will probably just think: that must be his favourite breakfast. But people discover when they read it that it is literally the fry-up that saved my life because it was basically my mum’s insurance against being browbeaten and taken to the hospital. She was literally unable to go through with the termination because she’d had the breakfast and she wasn’t supposed to eat beforehand.” For a politician to have such an extraordinary story to tell is rare. For that politician to be able to tell it with such eloquence and benevolence is rarer still. This book is a triumph.' --- Alan Johnson Streeting was elected as President of the National Union of Students (NUS) in April 2008 as a candidate from Labour Students, with the support of the Union of Jewish Students. [8] He had been a member of the NUS National Executive Committee since 2005, having previously held the post of Vice-President (Education) from 2006 to 2008. In April 2009, he was elected to a second term as President of the NUS. He also served as a member of the National Committee of Labour Students for four years during this time.In the first quarter of the book we are given a fairly extensive history of both sides of Wes's family. At times it felt a little too extensive, but I think it was justified as various members of the family passed on, as they always do, and Wes has to take this all on board as well as new members coming to the family with new relationships and births. That's life. Also, understanding the experiences of his family members was to help Wes empathise with constituents and others seeking help.

We make our way down Whitechapel Road, looking for an open pub. Years ago, they would have been open from 7am for the night-shift workers, but not any more. As we walk, Streeting talks about his childhood: how his wonderful primary headteacher Mrs Dodd spotted his talent and nurtured him; being sent to Westminster City school, a successful comp near parliament, and coming face to face with a world he had never seen before. He acted in plays, learned to play the cello, excelled in exams. Again and again, he talks about providing disadvantaged youngsters with the opportunities he had. My five foot two-and-three-quarter-inch tall grandmother confronted the man who basically was battering my mum,” he says. You may feel that there is already way too much politics in your life right now. But let me whisper it all the same: it seems likely that Johnson at 10: The Inside Story (Atlantic, April), Anthony Seldon’s new book, co-written with Raymond Newell, will be a gripping, if not to say utterly horrifying, read. One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry-Up by Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary (Hodder, August), may be a sight better than the average political memoir, and I’m looking forward to This Is Not America: Why We Need a Different Conversation on Race by Tomiwa Owolade (Atlantic, June). Widening the frame, A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War (Hutchinson, March) by the award-winning journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad has already been likened by William Dalrymple to Michael Herr’s classic Dispatches. My polemic of the year is the deeply researched and righteously angry Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women by Victoria Smith (Fleet, March), a book that could not be more necessary (a sword and a shield) in the current climate.Streeting, Wes. "Wes Streeting: This country needs good quality social housing, now". LabourList . Retrieved 5 August 2020. Layfield, Luke (29 October 2004). "Architecture under threat at Cambridge". The Guardian . Retrieved 10 April 2020. An inspiring, witty East End growing up memoir by leading Labour MP Wes Streeting, vividly portraying the power of family and education to help him escape poverty and transform his life.