Lord Lansley suggested the prime minister could remove Mr Hunt to 'demonstrate change' ahead of the next election.
A former Tory health secretary has suggested Rishi Sunak should be 'ruthless' and consider sacking Jeremy Hunt as chancellor at the next reshuffle. Lord Andrew Lansley, who was an MP from 1997 to 2015, suggested the prime minister remove Mr Hunt to 'demonstrate change'. Speaking to the Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge, Lord Lansley said he and Mr Hunt had 'always been good friends' but added: 'It's quite difficult to demonstrate change without change.
So it's quite difficult to demonstrate change without change. So let's just put it like that.' Click to subscribe to the Sky News Daily wherever you get your podcasts Mr Sunak, who marked his first anniversary as prime minister earlier this week, has been keen to impress upon the public that he is the change candidate, despite his party being in government for the past 13 years.
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