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Storbrittanniens utrikesminister Jeremy Hunt. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Brittiske utrikesministern vill haka på USA:s ryssanktioner

Vladimir Putin prövar sina västliga motparters tålamod och således bör EU matcha USA:s sanktioner mot Ryssland. Det menar den nytillträdde brittiske utrikesministern Jeremy Hunt, efter dagens besök i Vita huset.

– Putin vill se hur robusta och enade vi egentligen är i väst, därför är det viktigt att vårt svar är robust och enat, säger Hunt.

Som exempel på hur Putin ”gjort världen till en farligare plats” anger Hunt förgiftningen av ex-spionen Sergei Skripal.

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Jeremy Hunt
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Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (born 1 November 1966) is a British Conservative Party politician. He has served as the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs since 9 July 2018, and as Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Surrey since 2005. Hunt identifies as a one-nation conservative, and has been associated with both economically liberal and socially liberal policies. He has been characterised as a "metropolitan liberal" by the Financial Times.Hunt was born in Kennington and studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford University Conservative Association. He was first elected to the House of Commons in 2005, and was promoted to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Minister for Disabled People and later as Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. He served in the Cabinet as Culture Secretary and Minister for the Olympics from 2010 to 2012, and Health Secretary from 2012 until 2018. He was appointed to the additional portfolio of social care in England in January 2018. On 3 June 2018, Hunt became the longest-serving Health Secretary in British political history. The following month he was appointed Foreign Secretary, following the resignation of Boris Johnson. As Culture Secretary, Hunt spearheaded the drive for local TV, resulting in Ofcom awarding local TV broadcasting licences to several cities and towns. Hunt also oversaw the 2012 London Olympics, which received widespread acclaim. As Health and Social Care Secretary, he oversaw the imposition of a controversial new junior doctors' contract in England after the failure of negotiations. During the dispute, junior doctors undertook multiple strikes, the first such industrial action for forty years.
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