Jeremy Hunt
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first heard May 2026
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The News Agents · Did Farage incite violence with his call for 'pure cold rage'? · 3 Jun 2026
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Chief Executive of British Airways.
You can arrive, get your feet under the table, get your people in place, get to know the industry.
And then maybe a couple of years later, so here's my plan to make BA the best airline.
In politics, your political capital is draining away from the moment you arrive.
And I think if there was one, if we get a new chancellor this year, which people are speculating about,
If there was one thing I would say, irrespective of ideology or party, it is you have to do your big things in your first three months.
You can't wait any longer because political capital is like an egg timer.
The sand is dripping away.
And if you wait a couple of years to do your big things, you won't have any capital left.
And so for the economy, where there's always going to be vested interests who are against this reform or that reform, whatever the big thing is you want to do, you just have to do it really fast.
And that is the big challenge of the job.
Yes, look, first of all, it's a totally fair criticism.
There were lots of big radical things in the book that I didn't do.
And, you know, without getting into boring self-justification, I suppose what I would say is there were lots of big difficult things I did do, like increasing taxes for a Conservative Chancellor.
It was very, very difficult.
And you remember the heat that I got over freezing tax thresholds or cutting spending where, you know, also I got a lot of heat.
And we did make a start on welfare reform, but that maybe welfare reform is a good one to talk about, because whereas I did the big tax rises and spending cuts, which stabilised the markets and the public finances straight after that big increase in debt that we had after Covid, I did those quickly.
And I, to use the horrible Westminster jargon, I landed them and they were accepted on all sides as being necessary.
And I won the argument that they were necessary.
On welfare reform, I waited a year.
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