STORY
Jeremy Hunt has used a new interview to reflect on the personal cost of political life and to argue that Britain still faces deep economic challenges. The former Chancellor, now on the Conservative back benches, said politics had made him a poor husband, father and friend, according to The Times.
Hunt also used the interview to discuss his new book on the British economy and the need for long-term reform. He criticised both Conservative and Labour failures, while arguing that the country’s economic problems required difficult choices on taxation, welfare, pensions and productivity.
His comments add to the wider debate over whether either main party has a credible plan for growth. Although Hunt is no longer in frontline politics, his intervention will be read in the context of Conservative attempts to rebuild after defeat and Labour’s own internal argument about economic direction.