Wesley Paul William Streeting, born in 1983, is a British politician and a member of the Labour Party. He has served as the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care since 2024 and has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ilford North since 2015, having been re-elected in 2017 and 2019. His political career began in local government, where he was elected to Redbridge London Borough Council in 2010 and became its deputy leader in May 2014.