Jeremy Hunt finds day job annoyingly interferes with leadership bid | John Crace

Writing speeches contradicting his previous views – and planning a kitchen upgrade – put on hold

It had been a busy morning for Jeremy Hunt. First there had been another photoshoot for a Sunday colour supplement of him gambolling through the garden in the dawn’s early light, hand in hand with his wife. He hadn’t felt this happily married in years. And thank God he’d remembered to get the gardener to mow the lawn.

Then he had sat down to write his second “wide-ranging” speech in as many days; this time to be given that afternoon at a conference he’d managed to wangle an invite for from the Wall Street Journal. For the previous day’s bash at the Lord Mayor’s Easter banquet, he’d called for the government to double its defence spending – a ludicrous idea obviously, not least because he had argued against it when trying to get his mitts on more cash for the NHS as health secretary, but one that was guaranteed to appeal to the Tory heartlands – so he would have to come up with something else.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/30k9ZVd