Meet Jeremy Hunt’s wife and children as he announces Autumn Budget
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered his 2023 Autumn statement in the House of Commons today (Wednesday, November 22).
A freeze on alcohol duty and a rise in the National Living Wage are among 110 measures the Chancellor boasted would ‘make work pay’ and drive growth for business.
But who is Jeremy Hunt married to, and how many children do they have?
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Here’s everything you need to know about the Hunts.
Who is Jeremy Hunt’s Wife?
Jeremy Hunt met his wife, Lucia, at a 2008 Hotcourses event in Warwick.
Born Lucia Guo, the Xi’an native was working for Warwick University at the time, helping them to recruit Chinese students.
Under a year later, Jeremy proposed during a Christmas Eve walk and the pair tied the knot in Lucia’s home city in China.
Together they run a real estate business called Mare Pond Properties ltd.
There’s a large age-gap between the two and Jeremy, 56, has described Lucia, 44, as a ‘sparkler’, brightening up the lives of him and his family.
She’s a fervent supporter of his political aspirations and is often seen by his side at Conservative party events.
In 2019, Lucia was dubbed the ‘secret weapon’ in Jeremy’s failed party leadership campaign.
Do they have any children?
Jeremy and Lucia Hunt have three children together, each two years apart.
Their 13-year-old son Jack was born in 2010 followed by daughters Anna, 11, and Eleanor, 8.
As Health Secretary in 2014, Hunt argued for ‘controlled immigration’, citing his half-Chinese children as a reason he feared ‘social divisions and tensions’ exacerbated by ‘health tourism’.
The couple tend to keep their children out of the spotlight.
Where do the Hunt family live?
The family live in Jeremy Hunt’s constituency of Hambledon, in South West Surrey.
Hunt also has a flat in Pimlico, South London, which, according to the The Evening Standard, he bought for just under £1.7million.
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