Pleased too, but he's been replaced in Education by someone who attended an Independent school followed by Oxford Uni and went on to become a Corporate Lawyer. No teaching qualifications or anything remotely like it and not exactly a representative school experience (have any Tories?) ....
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Shadow education secretary
The Honourable Tristram Julian William Hunt – he has the title 'Honourable' because he is the son of Lord Hunt –
FRHistS (born 31 May 1974) is a British
Labour Partypolitician, activist,
historian,
broadcaster and newspaper
columnist, who is currently the
Member of Parliament for
Stoke-on-Trent Central. He also teaches and lectures on modern British history at
Queen Mary, University of London[1] in Mile End, East London. He has written several books and in his work as a broadcaster has presented history programmes on television. Hunt is a regular writer for
the Guardian and
the Observer.
[2]
Hunt is a member of the Labour Party, and after supporting the party as an activist for several years and working as a member of the party's staff, he entered the political arena professionally, becoming an MP at the
2010 general election.
Hunt is the son of
Julian Hunt, Baron Hunt of Chesterton, a meteorologist and leader of the Labour Group on
Cambridge City Council in 1972-3, who was created a
LabourLife Peer on the recommendation of
Tony Blair in 2000.
[3] After attending
University College Schoolwhere he got two As (History and Latin) and a B (English Literature), Tristram Hunt read History at
Trinity College,
Cambridge and the
University of Chicago, and was for a time an Associate Fellow of the Centre for History and Economics at
King's College, Cambridge. His
PhD,
Civic thought in Britain, c.1820– c.1860, was taken at Cambridge and was awarded in 2000. While at Cambridge he was a member of the
Footlights, where he was a contemporary of
David Mitchell and
Robert Webb.
But don't let that spoil a good partisan political rant!