Furious Hunt attacks ‘unworthy’ BBC after Amol Rajan calls chancellor a ‘fiscal drag queen’ and ‘Soviet’
by Zoe Grunewald
Mar 07, 2024
3 minutes
Jeremy Hunt called the BBC “unworthy” during heated exchanges on the Budget during an interview on Radio 4’s Today programme.
The chancellor criticised programme host Amol Rajan after he called Mr Hunt a “fiscal drag queen” and said his plans to boost NHS productivity were “Soviet”.
Mr Rajan said Britain was “ravaged by economic shocks” and the economy was “at best drifting, at worst stagnant.”
The BBC presenter said: “We’ve seen seven quarters of per head
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