Labour ministers head to the cinema to soothe political blues

Following Labour’s embarrassing defeat at the polls, business and trade secretary and friend of Israel, Peter Kyle, was the designated fall guy and sent out on the media round.

It was as serious a time as you’d expect, with Kyle saying Wes Streeting is not plotting to overthrow Keir Starmer. The labour ministers were too preoccupied with the release of the Devil Wears Prada 2.

The devil wears cheap Labour suits

For some reason, Peter Kyle was on Sky News this morning. When asked about inevitable Labour leadership bids, he spoke of a cinema outing with his chum, health minister, Wes Streeting, to see the Devil Wears Prada 2. So surely, he couldn’t be launching a leadership bid…

On X, Sky News anchor, Sophy Ridge, said that Kyle had said the following:

Wes and I last weekend we were out campaigning together in Ilford. And let me say, he achieved a stunning result with that whole team in Ilford. That shows what a great campaigner Wes is. After we campaigned, we went for dinner and we went and saw a movie together. Somebody who was planning to pull the plug and launch a leadership bid in a couple of days time, doesn’t go to the cinema with a friend.

When asked what film they went to see, Kyle said they watched Devil Wears Prada 2.

Ridge then asked whether they had spoken about Labour’s leadership, to which Kyle replied:

Wes and I talk about the leadership of the country all the time. Wes and I shared an office together for nine years, we spent so much time talking about the leadership of the country. We almost never spoke about the individual.

Wonder if the Labour duo ever spoke about Peter Mandelson…

Kyle carried on, saying:

Wes and I care so much about the future of the country. We have a very shared view of public services in the modern world. About what Britain’s potential is amongst our competitive countries. We both care deeply about the opportunities that young people have. Also, we were friends going to the cinema and we had a good laugh about other things as well.

If you’re unfamiliar with the film, it’s a series about backstabbing, bitchy cliques, and elitists sneering at working-class people. Sound familiar?

The sequel, in particular, focuses on how the media is being corrupted and how those grappling for power are swayed by those with real power — the fucking tech billionaires.

You can’t help but wonder if Wes Streeting was getting tips. Though, with all his private health care donors, he hardly needs it.

Kyle finished by describing him and Wes as ‘very good friends.”

Wes and I are very good friends but I’m not going to fall into the trap of being his spokesperson. But what I can tell you is that he, like me, is focused on the success of this government. His primary mission in government is making sure the whole government is a success, and he is there for Keir when he needs him.

Definitely, definitely not running

This story was, of course, taken very seriously.

Peter Kyle saying Wes Streeting can’t be planning a leadership coup because they went to see Devil Wears Prada 2 at the weekend is so ludicrous it borders onto homophobia 😂

— Calgie (@christiancalgie) May 11, 2026

It looks to as if Wes Streeting and Peter Kyle have to wait until “The Devil Wears Prada III”…..

— Greg Hadfield (@GregHadfield) May 11, 2026

This wasn’t the only media appearance Kyle made. On the BBC4 Today programme, he said:

It’s one thing [to keep] open the option that you might try to become prime minister one day, and it’s a very different thing to try to unseat a sitting prime minister in the moment we’re in, and Wes Streeting is not doing that.

So that’s that then, he’s absolutely 100% not running. Well, maybe until tomorrow.

Featured image via the Canary