The next chancellor of the exchequer is The Right Honorable Jeremy Hunt, a member of parliament of Southwest Surrey since 2005.
Jeremy assumed office on the 14th of October 2022 after the resignation of his predecessor, Kwasi Kwarteng. Jeremy is a member of the Conservative Party.
He previously served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media, and Sport from 2010 to 2012, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2012 to 2018, and Foreign Secretary from 2018 to 2019.
The son of a senior officer in the Royal Navy, Hunt was born in Kennington and studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford University Conservative Association.
He was first elected to the House of Commons in 2005, and was promoted to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Minister for Disabled People and later as Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media, and Sport.
Hunt served in the Coalition Government as Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport from 2010 to 2012, where he led the drive for local TV, resulting in Ofcom awarding local TV broadcasting licenses in respect of several cities and towns. Hunt also oversaw the 2012 London Olympics, which received widespread acclaim. His previous business interests have seen him become one of the richest members of parliament.
He served as Secretary of State for Health, later Health and Social Care, from 2012 to 2018. Hunt served under both the Cameron premiership and May premiership and became the longest-serving Health Secretary in British political history. During his tenure, he oversaw the imposition of a controversial new junior doctors’ contract in England after a dispute in which junior doctors undertook multiple strikes; the first such industrial action for 40 years.