David James Fletcher Hunt, Baron Hunt of Wirral, PC MBE (born 1942), is an English Conservative politician, and was a member of the Cabinet during the Margaret Thatcher and John Major administrations.

He became Member of Parliament for Wirral after winning a by-election in 1976. The seat was broken up and Hunt became Member of Parliament for the new Wirral West constituency in 1983.

In government he served as a whip and junior minister under Margaret Thatcher, who made him Secretary of State for Wales in 1990, shortly before her resignation later that year. He remained at the Welsh Office until 1993, then served as Secretary of State for Employment in 1993-1994 and as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1994-1995. He lost his seat in the Labour landslide at the 1997 general election.

He was made a life peer in 1997. Lord Hunt was senior partner at his national law firm - Beachcroft Wansbroughs (now Beachcroft LLP) - between 1996-2005. He is now chairman of the firm's financial services division and is regarded as a major figure in the world of insurance and financial services. On certain Bills he occasionally steps back up to the opposition front bench in the House of Lords, on an ad hoc basis.

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