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Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (born 1 November 1966) is a British politician serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer from October 2022 to the 2024 general election. He was Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from July 2018, after Boris Johnson resigned from the post, but was replaced when Johnson replaced Theresa May as prime minister.
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I would never pay any price if it meant that Scotland would become independent.
If you put us in a difficult corner, we will stand our ground - that is the kind of country we are.
As a businessman I always paid my bills. That being said, if we leave without a deal I will not hand over a penny more than is legally required of us.
Britain has long championed international religious freedom
If you turn the EU club into a prison, the desire to get out of it won't diminish, it will grow and we won't be the only prisoner that will want to escape.
The mother chose to leave a free country to join a terrorist organisation
The EU was set up to protect freedom. It was the Soviet Union that stopped people leaving.
This government was the first to introduce tough measures to clamp down on migrants accessing the NHS and these changes will recover up to £500m per year to put back into frontline patient care.
The principle is the backstop which traps us into following EU customs tariffs until the EU gives us permission to leave the customs union... we have to find a different solution.
The only way that we're going to get through the House of Commons and give the British people the Brexit that they voted for is to have a version of the deal that the government has negotiated.
We need to deliver Brexit and my job is to make sure we have a debate about how we do that
We want Brexit to make Britain more global, and not more insular
It is really important to deliver a Brexit that works not just for the 52% who voted to leave the European Union, but for the 48% who didn't
Thousands of jobs in the West Midlands depend on having a wise prime minister making sensible calls as to how we leave the EU promptly, but also in a way that does not harm business. I am that person.
anyone who thinks I am going to write a blank cheque to the European Union is sorely mistaken
But I'm also very clear that we are going to leave the European Union come what may and I will deliver that. If that happens, I will do it in a way that protects the union because it's absolutely vital that we do.
My plan for defence will give our brave troops the backing they need and show the world that when it comes to the new threats to Western values, Britain is back and Britain's voice will be strong
Both of us would be crucified by our base if we went into a general election having promised that we would respect the referendum result and not having respected it
[I am prepared to leave without a deal, but not if there was a] prospect of a better deal
Those who do not share our values need to know that there will always be a serious price to pay if red lines are crossed, whether territorial incursions, the use of banned weapons or increasingly cyber attacks
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