Jeremy Hunt and the NHS: master negotiator or out of his depth? – podcast

Denis Campbell assesses whether Hunt’s experience as health secretary warrants him becoming the next prime minister. Plus: Dan Milmo on the Deutsche Bank job cuts

Jeremy Hunt is now the only man standing between Boris Johnson and 10 Downing Street. But the foreign secretary believes he is the only one of the two to have been seriously tested by high-stakes political negotiations that come anywhere close to matching the Brexit talks. His biggest role in government so far has been as the UK’s longest serving health secretary.

As our health policy editor, Denis Campbell, tells Anushka Asthana, during that time Hunt successfully persuaded the prime minister to significantly boost NHS spending. But he was also mired in controversy as he forced a new contract on junior doctors in the face of unprecedented industrial action. The result was that some doctors such as Rachel Clarke are still extremely angry.

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