Healey urged by ex-Chancellor to be bold with first Budget and not fear Truss repeat IN FULL The Independent UK · Sep 22
Healey can’t let memories of Truss mini-Budget stop him from taking bold action UK needs, Jeremy Hunt says Sir Jeremy Hunt told The Independent that Andy Burnham should not fall into the trap of simply ‘doing things that get through the moment’, warning that tinkering around the edges would be a ‘missed opportunity’ for Britain The Independent UK · Sep 21
Why Keep the British Monarchy? John Humphrys Documentary Makes the Case for 'Putting Royals Out to Grass' John Humphrys's Channel 4 documentary explores whether Britain still needs the monarchy, drawing on political views and a Survation poll showing varying levels of support for abolition. International Business Times UK · Sep 16
Former chancellor Hunt calls for action on UK’s ‘mushrooming’ benefits costs Sir Jeremy Hunt said the UK could save more than £50 billion a year if benefits spending was reduced to 2019 levels. Evening Standard · Aug 19
The many many different faces in top UK Government jobs in the last ten years Forget six PMs. The UK on its eighth chancellor, ninth foreign secretary and 10th education secretary in a decade The Independent UK · Jul 21
I disagree with Andy Burnham’s politics. But as former health secretaries, we both know the NHS needs to be fixed As prime minister, he would have a unique chance to turn the world’s most bureaucratic health service into its most innovative one, says former health secretary Jeremy Hunt The Guardian - UK · Jun 22
Makerfield by-election: Could Andy Burnham be Labour's lucky general as he marches on No10? The economy may pick up, NHS waiting lists fall further and immigration be partly defused as a political issue Evening Standard · Jun 18
MPs who backed assisted dying bill don’t expect it to return via act that bypasses Lords Prominent backers including Louise Haigh say they would not support using Parliament Acts to pass bill The Guardian - UK · Jun 3
‘I want him to be proud of me’ – MP running London Marathon in brother’s memory Josh Fenton-Glynn will run the 26.2 miles through the capital in memory of his brother, Alex English, who died in January 2025 from a rare cancer. Evening Standard · Apr 24
Reeves rightly fears the bond market, but she can afford to ditch one unhelpful rule The chancellor has wisely vowed to drive down the annual deficit, but long-term defence investment must not be delayed The Guardian - UK · Apr 18
British military and diplomatic leaders attack Trump over ‘Starmer is no Churchill’ jibe ‘Trump is quite rude about quite a lot of friendly prime ministers,’ says former ambassador The Independent UK · Mar 4
Jeremy Hunt urges medics to do more to improve detection of rare childbirth condition Exclusive: Former health secretary throws weight behind campaign to boost diagnosis of placenta accreta spectrum The Guardian - UK · Feb 23
Starmer should resign if he ‘can’t do the job’, says Badenoch Ms Badenoch made the comments on a visit to Godalming, Surrey, on Monday. Evening Standard · Feb 9
Starmer faces calls to cancel King's US visit over Trump's Greenland 'gangster' threats President warns UK and allies face tariffs if they oppose American takeover of Danish territory Evening Standard · Jan 18
The Guardian - UK · Jan 14 Maternal death rate in UK rose by 20% over 14 years despite Tory pledge Experts describe increase as ‘absolute tragedy’ after data shows rate jumped despite Conservatives vowing to halve it
Evening Standard · Dec 9, 2025 King jokes former chancellor should ‘keep trying’ to make Britain ‘great again’ Sir Jeremy Hunt told the King of his plans to write a book on how to ‘make Britain great again’ when he was knighted at Windsor Castle on Tuesday.
Evening Standard · Nov 26, 2025 Campaigners and Labour MPs hail Rachel Reeves’ decision to scrap two-child limit Ditching the policy will result in an estimated reduction of child poverty by 450,000.
The Guardian - UK · Nov 22, 2025 A make-or-break budget: inside the Treasury before Labour’s crucial day From the outside, the run-up to Rachel Reeves’s announcement has looked chaotic, and many see the future of the chancellor and PM in the balance
Evening Standard · Oct 29, 2025 UK can ‘defy’ gloomy forecasts despite productivity problems, says Chancellor Rachel Reeves argued that austerity, Brexit and the pandemic had left ‘deep scars’ on the UK’s economy.
The Guardian - UK · Oct 21, 2025 The Tories set a tax trap and Rachel Reeves walked straight into it. It may be her defining mistake By taking Jeremy Hunt’s NI cuts and ruling out other rises, Labour tried to out-Tory the Tories. And made a bad situation worse, says former Labour minister Chris Mullin
The Guardian - UK · Oct 15, 2025 Who’s to blame for the NHS’s blame culture? Letters: Dr David Zigmond, Dr Richard Sloan, Dr Eric Watts and Dr Ian Freeman respond to an article by the former health secretary Jeremy Hunt
The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2025 Here’s the direct effect of our NHS blame culture: babies die. Tragedy after tragedy, it can’t go on Until staff are unafraid to be open about genuine mistakes, however devastating, nothing will be learned – and nothing will change, says former health secretary Jeremy Hunt
The Independent UK · Sep 10, 2025 Parents running ‘gauntlet of horror’ to access Send support – Motherland actor Anna Maxwell Martin said children were being written off amid a ‘ridiculous’ punitive approach involving fines for non-attendance.
The Guardian - UK · Sep 5, 2025 Angela Rayner, plain-speaking scourge of the Tories, made herself vulnerable Northerner whose emotional openness was an electoral asset eventually had to follow advice she had given to Tory rivals and quit
The Guardian - UK · Sep 3, 2025 Parents and children who struggle at school need to be supported, not shamed Letters: Katherine Green says it’s not a question of ‘doing more’, while Kimberly Hind shares her battle for her deafblind son. Plus letters from Marjorie Wallace and Prof John Gallacher