Jeremy Hunt tar över som ny minister efter Johnson
Jeremy Hunt blir ny utrikesminister i Storbritannien, rapporterar BBC. Han efterträder Boris Johnson som avgått i protest mot Theresa Mays planer för brexit. Hunt har fram till nu varit hälsominister i Mays regering.
Förutom Johnson har brexitministern David Davis och flera andra högt uppsatta politiker lämnat sina poster, och under kvällen har parlamentsledamöter från Torypartiet sammanträtt. Politikern James Heappey, som deltog, skriver på Twitter att May hade ett väldigt stort stöd. Enligt Robert Buckland, ledamot av det brittiska överhuset, var det inte förtroendet för May som avhandlades.
– Toryfamiljen pratade på ett vuxet sätt, säger han enligt Sky News.
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Jeremy Hunt
Wikipedia (en)
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (born 1 November 1966) is a British Conservative Party politician serving as the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs since 2018 and Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Surrey since 2005. Hunt identifies as a one-nation conservative, and has been associated with both economically liberal and socially liberal policies.
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. He was elected as MP for South West Surrey in Surrey 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.
He served in the Cabinet as Culture Secretary and Minister for the Olympics from 2010-12 and Health Secretary from 2012-18. He was appointed to his current role in January 2018, with the additional portfolio of social care in England.
As Culture Secretary, Hunt spearheaded the drive for local TV, resulting in Ofcom awarding local TV broadcasting licences to several cities and towns. Hunt also oversaw the 2012 London Olympics, which received widespread acclaim.
As Health and Social Care Secretary, he oversaw the imposition of a controversial new junior doctors' contract in England after the failure of negotiations. During the dispute, junior doctors undertook multiple strikes, the first such industrial action for forty years. On 3 June 2018, Hunt became the longest-serving Health Secretary in British political history.
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