Jeremy Hunt
Will Jeremy Hunt be the next prime minister?
Since he was defeated by Boris Johnson in the 2019 Conservative leadership contest, Jeremy Hunt has had a quieter life…
Foreign honours for Hunt and May
Not many people here in Westminster have a good word to say about the Theresa May years. But down in tiny…
Keir Starmer may have a better chance of taking Labour to power than anyone expected
First impressions matter in politics. Once the public have made their mind up about a politician, they rarely change it.…
Perhaps we are all communists now
‘I am a columnist for the Daily Telegraph,’ I began a text message to an NHS executive last week. Due…
Boris Johnson wins the Tory leadership race
Boris Johnson will be Britain’s new prime minister after winning the Tory leadership race. Boris picked up 92,153 votes, or…
Johnson and Hunt try to unite the Tory party in final leadership debate
Tonight’s Sun debate between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt was far more relaxed than last week’s head-to-head clash. But it…
Boris vs Hunt: a voter’s guide
Voting is finally underway in the Tory leadership contest. So should Britain’s next prime minister be Boris Johnson or Jeremy…
The Tory leadership contest is entering its most important week
Although there’s three weeks until the next Tory leader is announced, the contest is entering what is the most important…
Boris’s campaign is a triumph
Forget what you’ve been told about the Conservative leadership campaign. The Boris campaign’s weekend meltdown has not lost him the election. And…
Why neither Boris nor Hunt can stop a no-deal Brexit
There is a lot of confusion about Boris Johnson’s approach to Brexit. And that is deliberate because the candidate has yet…
Jeremy Hunt capitalises on Boris Johnson’s troubles
When Jeremy Hunt was announced as the candidate who would join Boris Johnson in the final two for the Tory…
Tory leadership hopefuls turn on one another in Channel 4 debate
The first televised Tory leadership debate drew as much attention for who wasn’t there as who was. After Boris Johnson…
‘I have spent my life with people underestimating me’: Jeremy Hunt interviewed
When a head of state flies in for a state visit, it’s traditional for the Foreign Secretary to lead the…
The strangeness of Jeremy Hunt’s leadership campaign
Jeremy Hunt’s approach is very odd. It is the first time I remember an aspirant for the top job saying:…
Full-blooded Brexiteers vs cabinet compromisers
Parties don’t get rid of their leaders unless things are going very badly. But this Tory crisis is different in…
A nice, cuddly NHS would be bad for us
Recently the NHS postponed a large number of non-urgent operations to cope with what is known as the ‘annual winter…
The Cabinet reshuffle that exploded in Theresa May’s face
Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, tried to shuffle her cabinet, but Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, refused to become…
The Cabinet reshuffle highlighted Theresa May’s three great weaknesses
‘They are not as strong as they thought they were,’ one Whitehall source remarked to me on Monday night as…
I used to back Jeremy Hunt’s digital NHS plan. Now I know it’s a disaster
My baby and I excel at blood tests. He (tiny, jaundiced) stretches out naked under the hospital’s hot cot-lamps like…
Emma Thompson’s wrong about the EU and cake
At first glance, Emma Thompson’s intervention in the Brexit debate earlier this week didn’t make much sense. Asked at the…
Any deal with the junior doctors should cut both ways
A few months ago, paramedics were on the brink of industrial action. They had legitimate grievances. Ambulance services were being…
Striking doctors need an injection of realism
Treatment for that once-virulent condition, the British disease of strikes, has largely been successful. The number of working days lost…
Jeremy Hunt is spoiling for a fight. He’s picked the wrong one
Jeremy Hunt is right to fight for NHS reform. But he’s going after the wrong people, on the wrong issue
I’m a junior doctor and I used to trust the Tories. Not any more
Like many of my fellow junior doctors, I trusted a Conservative government with the NHS. If it’s to stay strong…
So the near collapse of A&Es around the country is all my fault?
Oh, I see. So it’s my fault. There I was, thinking that the general swamping and near collapse of accident…
