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Tristram Julian William Hunt, is a British historian, broadcast journalist and former Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central from 2010 to 2017. In January 2017 he announced he would leave the House of Commons in order to take up the post of director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.Hunt is a lecturer in modern British History at Queen Mary University of London. He has written several books and presented history programmes on television. He is a regular writer for The Guardian and The Observer. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. May 1974
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Tristram Hunt Quotes

“I can assure the Right Honorable Gentleman that in this house I see myself as a colossal god-king, a powerful beast from another realm, blessed with the powers of destruction, and I will run through the Palace of Westminster, lashing at all I encounter with the metal prong-whips. And all shall perish.”

Tristram Hunt

Speech to the House of Commons, Thu 21 Apr 2016; reported in The Daily Telegraph, Fri 21 Apr 2016, p. 8.

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“Under David Cameron, we have this situation where you now need more qualifications to work as a shift manager at McDonald's than to become a teacher.”

Tristram Hunt

Speech to the House of Commons, Wed 30 Oct 2013; reported in Evening Standard, Wed 30 Oct 2013, p. 4.

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