I, along with what I thought were most people, assumed that last Saturday morning Jeremy Hunt made a big mistake. The main item on the news and the front page of the Times’ magazine were full of the reporting of his belief that abortions should be restricted to 12 weeks after conception.
That same day his boss David Cameron was opening the Conservative conference PR by going around his local hospital in Oxford and promising new money for new technology to enable better nursing. This was a good story to start off the conference and it would demonstrate to the world that the Conservatives were not completely ducking the policy issue of the NHS, but were dealing with it on day one. And, despite these difficult economic times, were investing in it.
