What’s on Jeremy Hunt’s dining room wall? Art to enjoy with a cucumber sandwich

UK chancellor was pictured working on the autumn statement at home. Our art critic runs the rule over his choice of artworks

Tom Phillips, Ten Views of the Union Jack, 1976

Phillips is a quirky, literate artist – he has illustrated Dante – who balances gracefully between pop art and conceptualism. Here he analyses the British flag by printing it repeatedly with different degrees of solidity and clarity, questioning what it meant on the eve of punk in 1976 – and what it means today.

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