It was his contempt for nuns that got shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt into trouble on last week’s Question Time, but there was another notable line worth revisiting. A tetchy Hunt hit back at an audience member who accused him of failing to understand the needs of small business owners, struggling to pay their bills:
‘My wife runs a small business, so I know about the challenges facing small business in my family, so don’t give a lecture on that.’
Now that Hunt has brought his wife into the debate, Mr S wondered how tough life has been for Mrs Hunt, the small business owner. Juliet Thornback is a designer of upmarket homeware. Her company, Thornback and Peel, ‘create beautiful, intricate hand screen-printed pieces for the home’ and they don’t come cheap.
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