Who is Jeremy Hunt? New UK chancellor who backed Sunak in leadership race

Jeremy Hunt, who oversaw the London Olympics arsenic civilization caput and besides served arsenic wellness secretary, has been named arsenic the UK's caller chancellor.

He takes implicit astatine a captious clip for the UK system aft weeks of fiscal turmoil and uncertainty implicit the precocious projected mini-budget.

His predecessor Kwasi Kwarteng has been sacked by the premier minister.

Mr Hunt is simply a large sanction successful the Conservative enactment - and successful the Tory enactment race, helium enactment his value down erstwhile chancellor Rishi Sunak implicit Liz Truss.

This was aft getting eliminated from the contention himself aboriginal on, having failed to get capable votes to spell immoderate further.

He had stood for the apical occupation earlier - and successful 2019 helium astir made it, finishing 2nd successful the enactment contention with Boris Johnson named arsenic the winner.

Childhood: Grew up successful Godalming, Surrey

Education: Oxford University, obtaining a First successful philosophy, authorities and economics

Family: Married to Lucia Hunt and they person 3 children

Parliamentary constituency: South West Surrey

Mr Hunt was brought up successful the Surrey municipality of Godalming and attended Charterhouse School, wherever helium became caput lad and was known for his emotion of cross-country running.

At Oxford University helium enactment his sanction retired into the governmental sphere erstwhile helium served arsenic president of the Conservative Association.

But anterior to his vocation successful parliament, Mr Hunt had a vocation arsenic an English teacher successful Japan and arsenic an entrepreneur.

He was elected arsenic the MP for South West Surrey astatine the 2005 wide election, taking implicit from Virginia Bottomley.

From 2005 to 2007 helium was the shadiness curate for disabled radical arsenic a reward for supporting David Cameron - who attended Oxford University astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic him - successful the Conservative enactment contest.

Then erstwhile the Conservative-Liberal Democrat conjugation authorities was formed successful 2010, Mr Hunt joined the furniture arsenic caput of authorities for culture, Olympics, media and sport.

It was an important relation successful the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics, during which helium worked intimately with Mr Johnson, who was Mayor of London astatine the time.

In September 2012, Mr Hunt was appointed heath secretary.

He held bureau during a dilatory play of concern successful the NHS which created large problems, amid times erstwhile demands connected the wellness work were growing.

His long-running assignment arsenic wellness caput ended erstwhile helium became overseas caput successful July 2018.

This was aft his predecessor - and present ex-prime curate - Mr Johnson discontinue implicit Theresa May's Brexit strategy.

In March this year, helium became the archetypal Western overseas curate to sojourn Yemen since struggle determination began.

And successful June, helium revealed helium had had cancer but had present recovered. He said astatine the clip that "every subordinate of his family" has had the illness and that helium had "a insignificant one" himself.

The erstwhile wellness caput has precocious made headlines appearing astatine an infected-blood enquiry wherever helium called the ungraded a "huge failing of democracy".