Get set for a Tory Party spending spree

Both candidates for the Tory Party leadership could squander the fiscal restraint of the past few years. Emily Hohler reports.

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Jeremy Hunt: sounding macho
(Image credit: Jeremy Hunt © Peter Morrison/AP/Shutterstock)

Now that the Tory leadership contest is entering a decisive phase, it is "turning into a battle over who can sound more macho", says James Blitz in the Financial Times. Boris Johnson says he will take Britain out of the EU "do or die" by 31 October. Jeremy Hunt is now trying to sound "even more Eurosceptic". A month ago, he was saying, sensibly, that he would aim for a revised deal by the deadline, but was open to extending it if necessary. He said no deal was "political suicide" because of the impossibility of getting it through the House of Commons.

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.