Watch: Tory MP calls Hunt a 'fantastic' PM

Find someone who supports you as much as Steve Brine supports Jeremy Hunt. Shortly after the latter’s appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer on Friday, Brine was all over the airwaves suggesting to Radio 4 that ‘you should see Liz Truss as chairman and Jeremy as chief executive.’ And four days on, Brine is at it again, popping up on the BBC’s flagship Politics Live show to trumpet his patron’s credentials.

Host Jo Coburn wryly noted that less than twenty MPs had backed Hunt for leader earlier this year yet they seemed to be all over the airwaves. Brine denied, with a smile, that there had been a coup before smirking that ‘here’s what you could have won in 2019’ with reference to Hunt’s first failed leadership bid. But it was Brine’s subsequent Freudian slip in the studio that attracted the laughter of Coburn and her guests when he said: