Boris Johnson should be in a rage - he has a worthy competitor. Replaced him as UK Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt, looks like his predecessor with his mistakes, writes Politico. The publication reminded a whole heap of stories, when the current head of the Foreign Office got into a mess. One of the last such cases occurred to him literally the day before during his visit to China, when he could not remember who his wife was by nationality. "" My Japanese wife is my Chinese wife. This is a terrible mistake, "he told his colleague, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi before the talks in Beijing. "My wife is a Chinese woman, and my children are half Chinese, so we have Chinese grandparents who live in Xian, and we have strong family ties in China," the Briton frantically tried to make amends. The publication recalls that Hunt and his wife were married in 2009, they have three children. And this is not the only mistake of the new Foreign Minister of Britain. Politico as an example led to eight gaps that are already inscribed in the biography of Jeremy Hunt. In addition to the already mentioned story with his wife, an amusing mistake happened to him in 2012, when Hunt served as the Minister of Culture of Great Britain. He was asked to ring the bell at the Olympics. He looked scared when part of the brass bell he waved strongly separated and flew over the crowd. "Oh, my God, are you all right? Health and safety, are you all right? That's all, the catastrophe is prevented," Hunt said cheerfully.. The third oversight, according to the publication, is related to the way he wanted during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Britain to pay special attention to the victory over Nazi Germany, with which the organizers of the event sharply spoke: directors Danny Boyle and Stephen Daldry. As a result, Boyle was forced to personally contact the then then-Prime Minister David Cameron to stop the zeal of Hunt. Also, the current head of the Foreign Office was among the losers who randomly documented secret documents for the public. In 2017, while holding the post of Minister of Health of the United Kingdom, Hunt left the government meeting, holding papers so that he could see notes of his speech. Documents came under the lens of photographers, as a result, part of the printed text became available to the public, because of which Hunt had to justify himself. And in them, by the way, it was said that "hard Brexit means that people are fleeing the UK", and also mentioned the fact that 9% of doctors and 19% of nurses at that time were EU citizens. The fifth oversight was the violation of confidentiality of data. In 2015, as Minister of Health, Hunt, after visiting the hospital in London, photographed with medical staff and posted a photo on his Twitter. In the background was a board with a list of patients. This was indicated to him by users of the social network, and Hunt had to edit the photo. In the same year, the court ordered him to remove one of his posts on Twitter. Then the mountain minister posted a link to the news report about the murder with the signature "a tragic case from which it is necessary to learn a great lesson". And this despite the fact that at that time the trial was just beginning.

In this way, Hunt violated the rules on media coverage of ongoing trials. Another oversight is not his fault, says Politico, but the media often confuse his surname with the consonant English language. Well, the last one mentions a video in which Hunt in the rain for a while is accompanied by a musician with a wind instrument syzafon. However, this is not his fault, summarizes Politico.

Jeremy Hunt is a member of the Conservative Party.

He took up the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs on July 9.