Wes Streeting in front of a building damaged by Russian strikes in the Lukianivska district of Kyiv last week.Wes Streeting has suffered an “unbelievable volume” of homophobic abuse since becoming defence secretary, he has revealed.
He said it was clear that many people online “cannot cope with the idea” of a gay man in the role.
Streeting was brought back into the cabinet by Andy Burnham after resigning as health secretary under Keir Starmer.
Speaking at the Edinburgh Fringe festival, he said his sexuality had been “almost entirely unremarked upon in the media” w...
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