Government aide halts junior doctors interview: ‘where is Jeremy Hunt?’

As junior doctors exercise their right to strike today over government plans to change their contracts, Jeremy Hunt has been keeping a surprisingly low profile. In fact the Health Secretary has declined interview requests, instead sending his senior clinical advisor Norman Williams to field questions from the media.

Alas, there are some questions that are not appropriate to ask Williams. One such question is ‘where is Jeremy Hunt?’. Sky‘s Darren McCaffrey found this out the hard way after he asked Williams why Hunt was refusing to take media requests. At which point an aide dived in to stop the interview:

‘Hang on a minute, we’re not doing any of this nonsense.’

Alas for Hunt and his team, the camera was already on record. With Williams seemingly incapable of handling basic media questions, Hunt has now resurfaced with an appearance on the World at One.