This is from what seems to be a genuine JustGiving appeals page:

Yes, that is Jeremy Hunt, our Chancellor of the Exchequer. Rather than provide the funding that the NHS needs in a budget for which he is responsible, he is, instead, rather desperately seeking to raise £10,000 by running the London Marathon.

I am not, for one minute, saying that Hunt should not run the marathon. Doing so is his choice. But, the messaging that he is sending out by choosing to raise funds for the NHS is quite extraordinary. By implication, he makes clear that he believes that private funding of the NHS is to be preferred to state funding, and charity (which requires a degree of benevolence on the part of those with wealth, which is not now always apparent) is to be preferred to collective funding from the state when it comes to issues as important as healthcare. If that is what he really thinks, he should say so. His actions certainly suggest this is the case.

Perhaps, as desperate, is the sum that he is seeking to raise. You would, somehow, think that he might do a little better than target a total of £10,000. After all, Rishi Sunak could donate that and not notice.

But then, noticed the sum raised. As votes of confidence, go, £914 is not exactly an impressive indication of support for what Hunt is doing.

Jeremy Hunt appears to be managing a PR disaster. But that does rather summarise his political career.