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Wes Streeting MP on Growing Up in a Council Flat and Why Politics Matters

The Sacred

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The Importance of Religion in My Life

The Labour MP for Wapping talks about growing up in a devout Christian family. He says his moral compass is underpinned by Christian teaching and he loved going to church as a child. The former Thurifer recalls being given the responsibility of flinging incense around the church, which left him coughing with bloodshot eyes into the street. "I quite enjoyed seeing someone else's place of worship in a way that frankly I enjoy today"

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