Rishi Sunak in stiches as Jeremy Hunt mocks SNP in brutal conference speech quip

Jeremy Hunt had Rishi Sunak in stitches during his conference speech as he mocked the SNP.

The Chancellor took aim at Humza Yousaf’s party, the Lib Dems and Labour as he addressed the main hall at the Tory conference in Manchester.

Mr Hunt said: “We’ll tighten the law to stop people being de-banked for the wrong political views.

“The Lib Dems are wrong to want to overturn a democratic Brexit vote, but they still need a cash point to withdraw their euros.

“The SNP are wrong to ignore a democratic vote for the union, but they still need a bank account to pay for their motorhomes.

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“And even Keir Starmer, who’s wrong on just about everything, needs his trade union cash so he can too have a bank account, just never the keys to Downing Street.”

The Prime Minister was seen clapping and laughing as Mr Hunt made his quip about the SNP, which had a luxury campervan seized as part of the police probe into the party’s finances.

Elsewhere in his speech, the Chancellor hailed revised official figures which showed the UK economy had done better than previously thought as he blasted Brexit doom-mongers and nay-sayers.

He said: “Now, our friends at the Office for National Statistics have recently changed their mind about the size of the British economy.

“They had been saying we were the worst performing large European economy since the pandemic.

“But we weren’t the worst. We were one of the best. Since the pandemic we’ve recovered better than France or Germany.

“We’ve grown faster than both of them since we left the single market.

“And since 2010 we’ve grown faster than France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria, Finland, the Netherlands, and Japan.

“So to all the pessimists and declinists who’ve been talking us down, we say this: don’t bet against Britain – it’s been tried before and it never works.”