2017 Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election
There was a by-election in the constituency of Stoke-on-Trent Central on 23 February 2017 following the resignation of Labour's Tristram Hunt, who became director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. It took place alongside a by-election in Copeland.
Image: Official portrait of Gareth Snell crop 2
Image: Paul Nuttal 2014 (cropped)
Image: Official portrait of Jack Brereton crop 2
Several candidates had policies related to aiding Stoke's ceramics industry
Tristram Julian William Hunt, is a British historian, broadcast journalist and former politician who has been Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum since 2017. He served as the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-on-Trent Central from 2010 to 2017, and Shadow Secretary of State for Education from 2013 to 2015.
Hunt in 2015