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Rachel Sylvester

Tristram Hunt: ‘Politics is so short-term and fickle. At the V&A you can transform things’

On a canalside stroll through London, the former Labour MP, now director of the V&A, talks about chopsticks, election night envy and why Thatcher was the last PM to understand fashion

Sat 4 Apr 2026

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