Jeremy Hunt
speaker
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first heard May 2026
last heard 3 Jun
Jeremy Hunt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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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Did I make the structural reforms to the NHS that would have really set it up for the future?
No.
I think we need to decentralise the NHS, get rid of these
national targets that no other health care system has in the world that I think turn patients into numbers.
I think, frankly, Stalin would be proud of all the targets that run the NHS.
And it's dehumanising.
And we've got rid of them in education.
We've got rid of them in crime.
And we should have.
And I wish I'd done that.
So it's a fair criticism.
And in truth, would I have been supported by the prime ministers I served earlier?
to do that, well, it would have been politically very contentious because people would have said, you're scrapping the targets because you can't meet them.
So it wouldn't have been easy, but it would have been the right thing to do.
I think that's probably true.
But I think there's two answers to that question, John.
The first is it is important in the political process that people who have more freedom to speak out actually do make these arguments.
And I'm not the only backbencher in Parliament who is saying that it is...
It's not that we don't want to treat pensioners generously and eliminate pensioner poverty.
But if in reality the only way you can fund above inflation increases in the state pension is by borrowing, you are actually...
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