Jeremy Hunt: Reform's mission is to destroy the Tories
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🗓️ 9 June 2025
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Summary
Jeremy Hunt held an extensive number of briefs in successive Conservative cabinets; culture secretary, health secretary, foreign secretary, and chancellor. He's now back on the back benches after just holding onto his seat, focusing his time on "reading and writing". Last week he published a new book "Can We Be Great Again? - looking at Britain’s global position, and in Hunt’s opinion, why it could be greater.
Is this part of his bid for the Tory leadership? And with the rise of Reform would he consider a coalition?
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| 0:42.0 | Last week, I sat down with Jeremy Hunt, a politician who's held an impressive number of briefs in |
| 0:46.9 | successive Conservative cabinets, Culture Secretary, Health Secretary, Foreign Secretary, |
| 0:51.8 | and Chancellor following Liz Truss' disastrous mini-budget. |
| 0:54.8 | After the Tory's shocking losses last July in the election, he held onto his Surrey seat, |
| 0:59.2 | but only just, with a slim majority of 891 votes. |
| 1:03.8 | Since the Tory leadership contest in October, which saw Kemi Badnock stated as leader, |
| 1:08.1 | he has returned to the backbenchers. |
| 1:10.7 | As he told me in this |
| 1:11.6 | interview, this has given him more time to return to reading and writing, and last week he published |
| 1:16.1 | his second book, Can We Be Great Again? Looking at Britain's global position and in Hunt's opinion, |
| 1:21.9 | why it could be greater. Is this part of his bid for the Tory leadership? He assured me that he'd |
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