Shadow minister says he is ‘back at work, fighting fit and cancer-free’, after having kidney removed

Wes Streeting, Labour’s shadow child poverty secretary, has fully recovered from kidney cancer diagnosed in May and is returning to work, he has said in a video message.

The Ilford North MP, 38, said the treatment involved removing a kidney, but that he had not undertaken chemotherapy or radiotherapy, and was now “back at work, fighting fit and cancer-free”.

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