ONE OF THE MINOR sociological treats of being appointed shadow education secretary is a frontbench view of David Cameron’s crimson tide — that half hour journey, every Question Time, during which the Prime Minister’s face turns from beatific calm to unedifying fury. It starts at 12.04 with the merest ripple of annoyance in his shiny, placid countenance.
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Tristram Hunt is shadow education secretary and MP for Stoke-on-Trent. His books include Building Jerusalem and The Frock-Coated Communist.
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