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If Westminster is Hogwarts, Jeremy Hunt is head boy
A growing number of Tory MPs argue Britain’s new chancellor should be made prime minister; others ask why the party needs to bother when Hunt is really in charge.
Adrian WooldridgeJeremy Hunt is UK prime minister in all but name. Liz Truss is nothing more than a spectre walking the corridors of power, occasionally wailing and clanking her chains.
Hunt is now both the public face of the government, routinely acting as its spokesman in parliament and the media. He is also its leading decision-maker, tearing up almost all of Truss’ budget and starting from scratch.
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