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• 14 Apr 2016

  Jon Snow

  Accountability and the empty chair – Yes Minister, we want you!

  We keep asking, but when the constant refrain of Government Department press officers is “no Minister available”, how can we hold those in power to account for their actions?

• 8 Jan 2014

  Cathy Newman

  Have government ministers had a happiness bypass?

  First George Osborne tells us 2014 is a year for “hard truths”, and now Jeremy Hunt calls for some “national soul-searching” about obesity.

• 9 Oct 2012

  Victoria Macdonald

  Jeremy Hunt’s conference message to the social care sector

  The new health secretary was not at his most assured in his speech to the Conservative Party conference. But he had messages for the social care and charities sectors.

• 3 Jun 2012

  

  Cameron defends Hunt as pressure for investigation increases

  David Cameron defends his refusal to launch an investigation into Jeremy Hunt’s handling of News Corporation’s bid for BSkyB insisting the culture secretary acted ‘wisely and fairly’.

• 31 May 2012

  Gary Gibbon

  Hunt, Murdoch and the day Vince lost his powers

  As billed, Jeremy Hunt is emphasising the extra and unpopular references and burdens he was willing to put on News Corp over their bid for all of BSkyB. He quotes James Murdoch saying they were “tantamount to killing the deal.” But the real interest so far will be the text exchanges on the day Vince Cable’s sting by the Telegraph was fully disclosed.