Tristram Hunt Articles

Alan Milburn leading the way on social mobility, Clive Lewis' campaign team, May's US speech and Holocaust Memorial Day  – Richard Angell has this week's Last Word Alan Milburn is doing the Labour party's job for it ... again. His work on social mobility continues to...

The NHS crisis, progressive alliance ploys and Momentum purges – Progress director Richard Angell has this week's Last Word Toby Perkins’ speech to the House of Commons this week on the death of his father was not only a brave personal intervention, but also an...

Following Jeremy Corbyn’s second victory it may be all too easy to assume that ‘things can only get worse’ for the centre-left. While walking past the ‘Cool Britannia’ shops that mark Liverpool’s tourist hotspots, just minutes from Labour’s conference venue, it was...

Adam Harrison with the latest from the wonk world This age of post-truth politics can sometimes feel a little fantastical. In thinking about the publication of Jon Cruddas’ independent review of Labour’s election defeat and Tristram Hunt’s new book on England, a host...