Tristram Hunt

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Tristram Hunt became the Member of Parliament (Labour Party) for Stoke-on-Trent Central in May 2010. He is an historian, writer and broadcaster, who worked for Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson in a press office and Rapid Rebuttal capacity, as Special Adviser to David Sainsbury and has been linked to a number of pro-market ‘centre-left’ think tanks including Demos, IPPR and the New Local Government Network.

Education

Hunt initially attended ‘a state primary school, Milton Road in Cambridge’[1] until his ‘family moved to North London’[2] at which point he attended the elite University College School in Hampstead.[3] Hunt gained a First Class degree in history from the University of Cambridge (1995), before serving as an Exchange Fellow a year-long scholarship at the University of Chicago (1995-9).[4]


Affiliations

Contact

Website: tristramhunt.com
Twitter: @TristramHuntMP
Email: tristramhunt AT btopenworld.com | tristramhunt AT parliament.uk
Guardian: Profile

Notes

  1. Anna Bawden, Tristram Hunt: 'We've got to become the most interesting party' The Guardian, Monday 17 June 2013 19.15 BST
  2. Eleanor Radford Profiles: Tristram Hunt ~ his story, FE Week, May 17, 2013
  3. Andrew Pierce It's a bit rich for Tristram Hunt to play the posh card Daily Mail, UPDATED: 16:30, 2 November 2010
  4. Tristram Hunt About Tristram, accessed 17 August 2013
  5. NLGN NEW LOCAL GOVERNMENT NETWORK ANNOUNCES NEW CHAIR AND KEY ADDITIONS TO BOARD OF TRUSTEES 18 March 2004, accessed 17 August 2013