Jane Marion Hunt (born 4 June 1966) is a British Conservative Party politician who served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Small Business, Consumers and Labour Markets from July to September 2022. She has served as

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(MP) for

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in Leicestershire since

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Career

Hunt served on Charnwood Borough Council from 2003 until 2015 for Loughborough Nanpantan, and from 2018 for Quorn and Mountsorrel Castle. She worked as an adviser to her predecessor,

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, in Morgan's role as MP for Loughborough from

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. She was the unsuccessful Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for several

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Labour seats prior to 2019, initially contesting Leicester East at the 2010 general election and the neighbouring

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at the 2011 by-election. She also unsuccessfully contested Nottingham South at the

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and

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general elections. Hunt finished second in all bar one of the contests, coming third in Leicester South behind the Liberal Democrats. Hunt was elected at the 2019 general election; it was her fourth attempt to enter

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. She made her maiden speech to the House of Commons on 20 January 2020. She was appointed

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to the Cabinet Office. On 8 July 2022 she was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Small Business, Consumers and Labour Markets. In October 2022, following the resignation of

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, Hunt announced that she would be supporting previous Prime Minister

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in the subsequent leadership election.

Personal life

Hunt is married and has two children.

References

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* 1966 births Living people People from Quorn, Leicestershire People from the Borough of Charnwood Councillors in Leicestershire Conservative Party (UK) councillors Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Loughborough Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies UK MPs 2019–present 21st-century British women politicians 21st-century English women 21st-century English people Women councillors in England Women government ministers in the United Kingdom {{UK-MP-2019-stub