What a shock to see Wes Streeting immediately undermining his boss Kate Green, the actual Shadow Education Secretary (though you wouldn’t know it from Streeting’s puff piece interview in the Guardian).

If Labour is scrapping the National Education Service it's a huge policy change that would require LOTO sign-off. The Shadow Education Secretary would front it, not schools minister Wes Streeting, since it's much bigger than his brief.

So it looks like famous team-player Wes Streeting has undermined collective discipline for the sake of a snarky aside in an interview to attack the left. Who could have predicted it?

But he said it, so let's take him seriously for one tweet. The National Education Service is a massive policy. It's not just lifelong learning—it ranges from free tuition to child nutrition, which is even more vital & popular now. So what does he mean? What does he want rid of?

Wes Streeting dismissing the National Education service as a failed slogan is a kick in the teeth for Angela Rayner, who championed it as Shadow Education Secretary and has carried on promoting it as Deputy Leader. She hoped it would be "in safe hands".