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Is Jeremy Hunt positioning himself to be next prime minister? | Katy Balls

By speaking frankly about NHS funding, the health secretary is rewriting the rulebook showing that anything is possible

At the weekend a Conservative MP took to the airwaves to break from party orthodoxy. Decrying the government’s funding model for the NHS as “crazy”, this Tory rebel with a cause made clear their support for a new health tax. Only, this wasn’t an unruly backbencher fed up of Theresa May’s weak and wobbly leadership, nor was it an ambitious minister sticking their oar into the health brief. Instead, it was Jeremy Hunt – the secretary of state for health.

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Continue reading... March 27, 2018 at 01:30PM

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