Jeremy Hunt may have just written the growth manual Britain has been waiting for

Jeremy Hunt: When I lost my brother, I lost my best friend

Jeremy Hunt, 59, is a Conservative MP for Godalming and Ash, and was first elected to the House of Commons in 2005. He went on to be the UK’s longest-serving health secretary from (2012-2018) and chancellor of the exchequer, also overseeing the London Olympics as culture secretary. Born in Kennington, he studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, before later becoming an English teacher in Japan and then an entrepreneur, co-founding the Hotcourses edu…

Jeremy Hunt may have just written the growth manual Britain has been waiting for

In Can We Be Rich Again? the former chancellor delivers a refreshingly self-aware diagnosis of what has gone wrong with the British economy, and a costed prescription that SMEs, in particular, ought to read with interest. He could so easily have phoned it in. A bulky political memoir, a couple of nicely judged knives slipped between the shoulder blades of former Cabinet colleagues, an amusing yarn or two from Davos and the IMF spring meetings, a…