5 career highlights of Britain’s “least popular MP” Tristram Hunt

Labour’s Tristram Hunt is quitting as the MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central to become the director of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum – so let’s look at some of his career highlights, according to Twitter.

1. He improved the Stoke-on-Trent dining scene.

Beyond excited that #StokeOnTrent is finally going to get a @PizzaExpress https://t.co/VqHTjXdDZ2

— Tristram Hunt (@TristramHuntMP) November 30, 2015

2. He spoke to racist schoolchildren.

My favourite Tristram Hunt moment https://t.co/g2tLj745om

— Sean Clare (@Sean__Clare) January 13, 2017

3. He was Britain’s least popular MP.

In 2015 Tristram Hunt was "Britain’s least popular MP: a derisory 19 per cent of constituents voted for him" https://t.co/97LtvGzKkm pic.twitter.com/b9tfiZOraV

— Maya Goodfellow (@MayaGoodfellow) January 13, 2017

4. He was an inspirational speaker.

Remember the time Tristram Hunt crossed a picket line so he could deliver a lecture on Marx

— Ellie Mae O'Hagan (@MissEllieMae) January 13, 2017

5. He knows how to have a good time.

Just remembering the time me and Tristram Hunt got wrecked in Trafalgar Square after watching England demolish Norway 1-0.

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) May 23, 2016

We stumbled into the national gallery thinking it was some trendy bar and vomited all over Holbein's The Ambassadors.

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) May 23, 2016

To be fair, I have my very own safe space. It's a fort made out of Tristram Hunt books I found in a skip outside Waterstones.

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) April 11, 2016