Hunt was educated at Charterhouse where he was Head of School. His father worked in NHS management after he retired from the navy and his mother was a nurse in the 1950s and 60s. He is also a distant relative of Queen Elizabeth II and Sir Oswald Mosley. Through a paternal great-grandmother, Hunt is a descendant of Sir Streynsham Master, a pioneer of the East India Company. A cousin was Dame Agnes Hunt, pioneer of orthopaedic nursing. The Hunt family were landed gentry, of Boreatton, Baschurch, Shropshire. He is the eldest son of Admiral Sir Nicholas Hunt, who was then a Commander in the Royal Navy assigned to work for the Director of Naval Plans inside the recently created Ministry of Defence, and his wife Meriel Eve Hunt, Lady Hunt (née Givan 1937–2022), daughter of Major Henry Cooke Givan. Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt was born on 1 November 1966 in Lambeth Hospital, Kennington, and raised in Shere, Surrey, near the constituency he represents in Parliament. Hunt attended Charterhouse School where he became head boy On 14 October 2022, Hunt was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer by Liz Truss, following the dismissal of Kwasi Kwarteng, and retained his role as chancellor in Rishi Sunak's ministry following Truss' resignation. After Johnson's resignation in July 2022, Hunt launched a second Conservative leadership bid, but was eliminated in the first ballot of Conservative MPs. He served as Chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee from 2020 to 2022, a prominent role due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He was a candidate for the Conservative Party leadership election in 2019, finishing second to Johnson, and resigned following Johnson's appointment as Prime Minister. During his tenure, he oversaw the imposition of a controversial new junior doctors' contract in England after a dispute in which junior doctors undertook multiple strikes the first such industrial action for 40 years.įollowing the resignation of Boris Johnson over the Chequers Agreement, Hunt was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in July 2018. He served under both the Cameron premiership and May premiership and became the longest-serving Health Secretary in British political history. Hunt served as Secretary of State for Health, later Health and Social Care, from 2012 to 2018. His previous business interests have seen him become one of the UK's richest politicians. Hunt also oversaw the 2012 London Olympics, which received widespread acclaim. Hunt served in the Coalition Government as Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport from 2010 to 2012, where he led the drive for local TV, resulting in Ofcom awarding local TV broadcasting licences in respect of several cities and towns. He was first elected to the House of Commons in 2005, and was promoted to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Minister for Disabled People and later as Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. The son of a senior officer in the Royal Navy, Hunt was born in Kennington and studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford University Conservative Association. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Surrey since 2005. He previously served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport from 2010 to 2012, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2012 to 2018, and Foreign Secretary from 2018 to 2019. Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (born 1 November 1966) is a British politician who has served as Chancellor of the Exchequer since 14 October 2022.
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