Jeremy Hunt: Labour government would need effective opposition

In an interview with BBC economics editor Faisal Islam, Mr Hunt was asked if talk of a Labour “supermajority” on 4 July was an implicit acknowledgement that the Tory campaign had gone badly wrong.

“I think it’s very important if Labour win, that they have an effective opposition in Parliament,” he said.

In his own constituency, Mr Hunt has admitted he faces a “knife-edge” battle with the Liberal Democrats to win the new seat of Godalming and Ash in Surrey.

In the 2019 election for his old seat of South West Surrey, Mr Hunt had a majority of 8,817.

“I do face a fight here, for sure,” he told the BBC.

“And what I say to people on the doorstep is if you vote for Reform…. Reform aren’t going to win but the Lib Dems will win.

“You will have fewer centre-right MPs and fewer MPs who want to control migration, fewer MPs who want to reduce tax, and that isn’t what those voters want.”