India, May 16 -- Wes Streeting, who recently resigned as the health minister of the United Kingdom, has launched his leadership bid to become Prime Minister, saying he would challenge Keir Starmer in any Labour Party leadership contest. And he's running on a promise of reversal.

Among the foremost points he highlighted while announcing the decision was that Britain should rejoin the European Union. In his first speech after resigning as the health minister, Streeting described Britain's 2016 referendum decision to leave the bloc as "a catastrophic mistake", claiming it had made the country its weakest since before the Industrial Revolution.

"We need a new special relationship with the EU, because Britain's future lies with Europe, and o...