Can We Be Great Again?

Hunt, writing after serving as both foreign secretary and chancellor, sets out to rebut Britain's declinist mood, walking through defense, diplomacy, medicine, education, and AI to argue the country still has more leverage than its domestic political chaos suggests. What reviewers have flagged as unusual for a political memoir is its tone: relatively non-partisan, willing to admit mistakes from his own tenure, and generous rather than score-settling toward rivals like Johnson and Truss, whose crises he was repeatedly brought in to manage. That same equanimity is also its limit, critics have noted the book is stronger as a measured brief for national self-confidence than as a searching account of why the decline narrative took hold.