<b>Who is Jeremy Hunt? New UK chancellor who backed Sunak in leadership race</b>
Jeremy Hunt, who has previously served as health secretary and foreign secretary, has been named as the UK's new chancellor.
He takes over at a critical time for the UK economy after weeks of financial turmoil and uncertainty over the recently proposed mini-budget.
His predecessor Kwasi Kwarteng has been sacked by the prime minister.
Mr Hunt is a big name in the Conservative party - and has twice unsuccessfully tried to become the party leader.
In the leadership race this year, he put his weight behind former chancellor Rishi Sunak over Liz Truss. This was after getting eliminated from the contest himself early on, having failed to get enough votes to go any further.
He had stood for the top job before - and in 2019 he nearly made it, finishing second in the leadership race with Boris Johnson named as the winner.
Mr Hunt, the fourth chancellor this year, was brought up in the Surrey town of Godalming and attended Charterhouse School, where he became head boy and was known for his love of cross-country running.
At Oxford University he put his name out into the political sphere when he served as president of the Conservative Association.
But prior to his career in parliament, Mr Hunt had a career as an English teacher in Japan and as an entrepreneur - co-founding the Hotcourses education publisher.
When the business was sold in 2017, Hunt netted a reported £14m, making him one of the UK's richest politicians. He said he would use the money to fund campaigns after he leaves politics.
Mr Hunt was first elected to parliament at the 2005 general election, taking over from Virginia Bottomley as the MP for South West Surrey.
From 2005 to 2007 he was the shadow minister for disabled people as a reward for supporting David Cameron - who attended Oxford University at the same time as him - in the Conservative leadership contest.
Then when the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government was formed in 2010, Mr Hunt joined the cabinet as secretary of state for culture, Olympics, media and sport.
It was an important role in the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics, during which he worked closely with Mr Johnson, who was Mayor of London at the time.
Earlier in 2012, he faced calls to resign over his role in the BSkyB takeover bid.
The then Labour leader Ed Miliband said Mr Hunt should quit over his contacts with Rupert Murdoch's media empire while he was considering the bid, which was later withdrawn.
But he survived the row and in September 2012, was appointed heath secretary.
He held office during a slow period of investment in the NHS which created big problems, amid times when demands on the health service were growing.
He also faced criticism over his handling of plans to introduce new contracts for junior doctors.
The medics took part in a series of walk outs in 2016 - on two occasions, between 08:00 and 17:00, leaving emergency care uncovered - the first time that had ever happened in the history of the NHS. A new contract for junior doctors was later imposed.
But Mr Hunt did go on to secure a funding increase for the NHS and also oversaw the introduction of an Ofsted-style system for rating hospitals and GP surgeries in England.
During the 2016 EU referendum, Mr Hunt was a remain campaigner, but afterwards said he would support leave.
His long-running appointment as health secretary ended when he became foreign secretary in July 2018. This was after his predecessor Mr Johnson quit over Theresa May's Brexit strategy.
During his time as foreign secretary between 2018-19 Mr Hunt tried to free Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe who had been held in Iran on spying charges, which she always denied.
After her release, he accused the UK of "diplomatic failure" and said global co-operation was needed to "stamp out" states taking people hostage.
In March 2019, he became the first Western foreign minister to visit Yemen since conflict there began.
After losing to Mr Johnson in the 2019 leadership race, Mr Hunt said the campaign was "always going to be uphill" for him because he voted Remain in the 2016 EU referendum.
He was elected to head a committee of MPs which scrutinises the performance of the NHS and government health policy in January 2020, saying he was "honoured".
In June this year, he revealed he had had cancer but had now recovered. He said at the time that "every member of his family" has had the disease and that he had "a minor one" himself.
Recently Mr Hunt made headlines appearing at an infected-blood inquiry where he called the scandal a "huge failing of democracy".
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