Jeremy Hunt On Economic Optimism and How To Avoid The "Double Doom" Loop

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Rob Moore

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🗓️ 5 October 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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0:00.0	When I was Elth Secretary, I was the most unpopular man in the country.
0:03.3	Chancellor Jeremy Hunt.
0:04.6	Evaluate yourself as Chancellor.
0:06.5	I'd probably give myself an 8 out of 10.
0:08.4	There was just so much chaos at Westminster.
0:13.1	And the truth is that I am really worried about what is happening to London.
0:17.7	Where are we going wrong with taxes?
0:19.5	Average family are paying a
0:21.4	foreground in tax, not for schools or the NHS, but for debt interest. Even Trump can't buck the
0:27.7	market. What do people not understand about running the country, how hard it really is? What happens
0:32.6	in government is, do you think the political system needs a reform? It does. There's too much wokery.
0:39.3	Quarter of adults are not in work.
0:41.7	We need to change.
0:42.8	What do you think is the biggest single threat to the UK right?
0:45.9	Biggest of all is...
0:49.9	Jeremy, is the UK economy failing right now?
0:53.8	We're doing badly, but I think you can overstate it.
0:58.3	And I think if you look at the trend lines rather than the headlines,
1:03.3	people are always been really bearish about the UK.
1:06.4	I mean, we're brilliant at washing our dirty linen in public.
1:09.6	We have newspapers like the Financial Times and the economists that are read in every corner of the world.
1:15.7	And so people know about all our problems.
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