The chancellor will stand down before the election as likelihood of defeat in new Surrey seat looms, senior Tories say
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt would expect to be elevated to the House of Lords if he were to stand down as an MP.Chancellor Jeremy Hunt would expect to be elevated to the House of Lords if he were to stand down as an MP.constituency of Godalming and Ash, after his South West Surrey seat was dissolved and split into two under boundary changes.
One former minister said that with a Labour government in prospect, the options for Hunt of fighting the new seat were not attractive, whether he won or lost: “Barring a miracle , I can’t see Jeremy wanting to be in opposition under a new leader. And if he loses he will be the biggest scalp on election night. That is not a departure anyone would want. People in Surrey are saying he will not stand.
Minutes after being selected, Follows told the local party that he would “work to ensure that the Portillo moment in the public mindset will become the Hunt moment”.
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