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If Downing Street aides thought Wes Streeting was going to quietly swear loyalty to Sir Keir Starmer on the morning media round after some extraordinary briefing against him they were badly mistaken.

In fact, their apparent ploy to call out suspected plotting to oust the Prime Minister may have badly backfired.

The coming days will show whether they have quashed dissent, at least temporarily, or ignited a growing revolt.

The ambitious Health Secretary strongly denied that he was manoeuvring to topple Sir Keir, though at times stopped short of totally ruling out a ch

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