Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including Tory leadership candidates take part in the press gallery hustings
Q: Do you think Boris Johnson is partly to blame for the continuing incarceration of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe?
Hunt says he does not want to comment. Everyone makes mistake. He is sure he will make mistakes too.
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Q: When you were health secretary you said that was likely to be your last job in politics? What has changed?
Hunt says he said that during the doctors’ strike. He was determined not to blink, and he wanted to show he would not back down, even if that were he last job.
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