LABOUR'S WES STREETING IN TEARS AT SIGHT OF EXIT POLL AS REALITY OF LANDSLIDE VICTORY SINKS IN

The man who is looking to become Health Secretary when the dust clears and the final result of the 2024 general election is in, Wes Streeting, started to tear up when he saw that Labour was projected to receive a stonking majority when the exit poll broke at 10pm. While Wes struggled to keep it together, Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham reacted live to the poll in the Sky News studio by punching the air and grinning from ear to ear.

While the NHS is an institution close to many Brits, for Mr Streeting, his experience of using the embattled health service is recent, having recovered from kidney cancer in 2021. This would have been close to the soon-to-be Health Secretary's mind, as the exit poll predicted a massive red wave, with Labour likely to get 410 seats.

Wes revealed that he began to well up and was close to tears as the exit poll was announced, shortly before he had to go onto the BBC, where he called the result "brilliant" with a historic win for his party. But he will need to be dry-eyed for the challenge he could face from Friday morning, with NHS waiting lists at record levels and millions of Brits becoming sicker while awaiting treatment.

Speaking later on Channel 4, Mr Streeting explained his vision to save the struggling health service. He said: "Yes the NHS is going through the worst crisis in its history, but it's doing so against the backdrop of the revolution that's taking place in life sciences and medical technology, where we can keep people well and keep people well for longer, battling conditions that were previously poorly understood and considered incurable."

Mr Streeting went on to paint a picture of technological change within the NHS, saying: "And this country, against all odds, is still leading that revolution in life sciences and medical technology., and if we marry the NHS model, that publicly funded, public service, free at the point of use, with our amazing life science and med tech community in Britain, then the sky is the limit in terms of what the NHS can achieve.

"That's how we will approach NHS reform because the future for health and care in this country is one that's far more personal, in terms of the personal care and attention that people receive.

"The extent to which we can deliver precision medicine and accurately predict what kind of conditions we will be vulnerable to and take early action. That then leads to prevention, that then leads to people not just living longer but living well for longer, and that's the future we all want to see."

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