The Health Secretary sat down with me. And he didn’t hold back.
Wes Streeting the man responsible for the entire NHS talks about surviving cancer at 38, the crisis hiding inside Britain’s maternity wards, why Black women are still dying at catastrophic rates in childbirth, what’s really happening with the National Cancer Plan, and why he believes the silent majority needs to start calling out racism before it’s too late.
This conversation covers:
• His cancer diagnosis at 38 — found by accident, treated by the NHS
• 100,000+ patients now diagnosed within 28 days (a stat you won’t see in the papers)
• The first ever government strategy for men and boys
• Why suicide is the biggest killer of young men — and what’s being done
• The sickle cell ward that nearly closed — and what it signals
• Black maternal mortality: “The excuses have run out”
• “I was told: I assumed you were a strong Black woman” — racism in maternity care
• Valerie Amos’s rapid national investigation into maternity (reporting June)
• Why he’s calling out the rise of open, unashamed racism in Britain
This is not a political interview. This is a human one.
🔗 Full talking points and timestamps in the show notes.
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