Who Is Wes Streeting and Why Is He Like That? w/ Ruth Pearce and Jonas Marvin

We talk about Wes Streeting, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care since July 2024. We discuss who he is, what his politics are, and what that all means for health policy in Britain? Jonas Marvin is a writer and researcher based in Stoke-on-Trent. He is the author of a forthcoming book, The Breaking of the English Working Class (Spring 2026, Verso), cohost of Life of the Party podcast, and blogs at Marx’s Dream Journal. Ruth Pearce is a Lecturer in Community Development at the University of Glasgow and a researcher specializing in trans healthcare. She has edited two books (The Emergence of Trans and TERF Wars) as well as special issues of the International Journal of Transgender Health (Fertility, reproduction and body autonomy) and Sexualities (Trans Genealogies). She is also the author of Understanding Trans Health.