Rome, 16 May (LaPresse) – Former minister Wes Streeting has confirmed that he will stand for the leadership of the Labour Party to replace the current leader, Keir Starmer. “We need a proper contest with the best candidates standing, and I will stand,” he told Sky News. Streeting explained that he did not want to force an immediate contest, as “it was not in the party’s interests” to have a contest before Andy Burnham had had the chance to return to parliament. Streeting reiterated his call for Starmer to “set out a timetable for leadership succession” and “give his ministers the freedom to nominate whoever they deem fit as leader of our party and Prime Minister of our country”.