Jeremy Hunt: Britain's new finance minister is a soft-spoken survivor now taking on his hardest role

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His appointment is meant to appease MPs already plotting to unseat Prime Minister Liz Truss. Read more at straitstimes.com.

is a mild-mannered political survivor who will require all of his considerable experience to calm an economy and government beset by chaos.

"He will drive our mission to go for growth, including taking forward the supply-side reforms that our country needs," she said on Friday.Mr Hunt hails from the centre of the Conservative Party, and his appointment indicates Ms Truss wants to appease those MPs already plotting to remove her after her tax-cutting budget sparked market chaos.

A supporter of remaining in the European Union, Mr Hunt was relegated to the backbenches when the pro-Brexit Mr Johnson took charge, although he was chair of the influential Health and Social Care Select Committee, which sought to hold the government to account during the pandemic. However, he was also criticised for his pandemic planning while health chief.

Hundreds of thousands of National Health Service workers went on strike in 2014 for the first time in 32 years following Mr Hunt's rejection of an across-the-board pay rise. Mr Hunt grew up in Godalming, south-west of London, and now represents the local South West Surrey constituency in Parliament.Mr Hunt went on to Oxford University, where he first became politically active as president of the Conservative Association, and was a contemporary of Mr Johnson and Mr Cameron.Britain to increase spending less rapidly than planned, says PM TrussAfter university, Mr Hunt worked as a management consultant and later an English language teacher in Japan.

 

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