Though she went to Oxford, she fled after a year – “I hated it it was a culture and climate that felt alien” – and completed her chemistry degree at King’s College London. The not at all smooth or laconic Powell, daughter of a social worker and a headteacher, was born and bred in Manchester and went to a local comprehensive which, by coincidence, her 11-year-old stepchild now attends (Powell has two younger children of her own). He has a history PhD, several books, TV programmes and a university lectureship to his name. He is the smooth, laconic, public-school-and-Cambridge-educated son of a Cambridge academic and life peer. Even though they were born in the same year, 1974, it is hard to imagine a greater contrast than that between Lucy Powell, the new shadow education secretary, and her predecessor, Tristram Hunt.
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