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11 February 2014

Tom Watson attacks Tristram Hunt for crossing a picket line

Labour MP says he would rather the shadow education secretary "resign his post as a lecturer than cross a picket line of striking lecturers".

By George Eaton

Today’s Morning Star gives Tristram Hunt both barrels for his decision to cross a UCU picket line at Queen Mary University of London (albeit in order to deliver a lecture on “Marx, Engels and the making of Marxism”) and now, in a rare red-on-red attack (by historic standards, Labour remains remarkably united), Tom Watson has joined the assault. At the end of a post on Ed Miliband’s Hugo Young lecture, he wrote of Hunt: 

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