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Coffee House Shots

Will Jeremy Hunt run for PM again?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Max Jeffery talks to Katy Balls and James Forsyth about the former Health Secretary's week. 

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0:00.0

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0:21.4

Hello and welcome to a special Saturday edition of Coffee How Shots.

0:25.2

I'm Max Jeffrey and I'm joined by Katie Bulls and James Forsyth.

0:29.6

We've spoken on this podcast before about how the opposition to Boris Johnson hasn't been

0:33.3

particularly organised, but one man clearly at the front of this has been Jeremy Hunt.

0:38.1

James, tell us about his week. So Jeremy Hunt on Monday had a moment of decision,

0:42.8

which is he had previously said that people should hold off with sending their letters in,

0:46.2

that the war in Ukraine is not your appropriate moment for leadership contest.

0:50.4

But on Monday morning, Graham Brady came out and said, look,

0:53.6

but those are in, the vote is coming.

0:55.6

And Jeremy Hunt decided to go public with the fact that he was going to vote

1:00.1

against Boris Johnson in that vote and that he thought that without change,

1:05.1

the Tories didn't have much chance of either delivering on their promises or of winning the next

1:10.8

election. That was then followed by, I think what I would have to say was the most vicious bit

1:16.0

of blue and blue briefing I've seen on the record and by how many years I've been in Westminster,

1:22.5

16, which was Nadine Doris just went out and studs up and went after Jeremy Hunt on pretty much

1:29.8

everything. Boris Johnson survived that vote and then, when a few days later,

1:33.4

Jeremy Hunt's week did not improve and the government decided that his constituency should

1:36.8

be drilled for natural gas, which I mean, it was, it could be seen as one Tories and people

1:42.0

put it to me yesterday quite, quite punchy. I think Jeremy Hunt felt that, you know,

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