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

The Sacred

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One Boy, Two Bills and a Fire

I sometimes think about the phrase a stable self because stable soul that is rooted in love but and then when we're rooted enough we don't. We can just be in conversation with them except that they're different from us and not feel like something deep within us is under threat which is such an easy way to adults act out in the world as well as children I think. Yeah I'd love to hear a bit about your childhood and you write really vividly about it in your memoir. It's very easy for it to be summarized in these kind of sound bites of you know single mum although your dad was nearbyYou know council flat, running out of electricity but there always being food at someone else

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