Furious Hunt attacks ‘unworthy’ BBC after Amol Rajan calls chancellor a ‘fiscal drag queen’ and ‘Soviet’

Hunt attacks ‘unworthy’ BBC after Amol Rajan calls chancellor a ‘fiscal drag queen’

The chancellor and the presenter clashed after Amol Rajan blamed the chancellor for a ‘drifting’…

The Independent

The chancellor and the presenter clashed after Amol Rajan blamed the chancellor for a ‘drifting’ and ‘stagnant’ economy.

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 GDP per head that’s been revised downwards. We’re hooked on foreign labour. The birth rate is collapsing. Many public services are creaking. Councils are going bust. Those are facts.”

The angry Mr Hunt replied that the remarks were “unworthy of the BBC… and unworthy of you Amol”…