The former shadow education minister Tristram Hunt had a decidedly mixed 2015, but he recently talked pretty powerfully at the Fabian Society about the politics of inequality, Labour's frayed bond with working - class voters and the necessity of reinventing the party's belief in redistribution. (theguardian.com)
But just a year later he was back as shadow education minister, from which he resigned in 2007, then successfully fighting the London mayoral contest. (theguardian.com)
The highest level of claims from the Conservatives came from former shadow education minister Alun Cairns, who spent the entirety of his # 12,500 allowance despite having a family home 45 minutes away. (politics.co.uk)