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Wes Streeting: “It is difficult and necessarily painstaking work, but it is necessary.”

On the recordSeptember 23, 2026
It is difficult and necessarily painstaking work, but it is necessary.
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Wes Streeting
Labour Party

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On the challenges of resolving the Chagos Islands issue.

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