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Tristram Hunt out of Labour leadership race

Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt has said he will not be standing for the Labour leadership and has given his backing to the Blairite favourite, Liz Kendall.

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Tristram Hunt: Voters 'didn't trust Labour to deliver'

Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt has told ITV that voters simply "didn't trust Labour" to deliver on social justice values when it came to election day.

Speaking on The Agenda, to be broadcast at 10.45pm, Mr Hunt also revealed he had yet to reach a decision on whether to run for Labour leadership after Ed Miliband resigned.

Tristram Hunt has not yet decided on whether to run for Labour leader Credit: PA

He said he wanted to see "everyone who loves the Labour party" to get involved in returning them to power, including David Miliband, Tony Blair and John Prescott, adding: "We are in a real hole".

There is a mood out there for a modern, sensible, progressive Labour party.

People have social justice values but they didn't trust the Labour party to deliver on those. That's the tragedy.

According to the election, we have [moved backwards]. We were in the centre ground and we were winning elections and clearly the view of the British public was that they weren't going to with us. So we do have to win from the centre ground.

We have to learn the lessons of what's happened.

– Tristram Hunt
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