The grassroots revolt that put Jeremy Corbyn into the leadership has re-energised the city’s moribund constituency parties – but it has also heaped pressure on its more centrist MPs who were already under threat from planned boundary changesAndrew Buttress,one of tens of thousands of leftwingers to return to Labour final year, says he does not dislike his MP, and Tristram Hunt,even though their backgrounds are very different – one is from a working-class Stoke background, the other is the son of a life peer. “Our politics are totally divergent, and said Buttress,who is not the son of Julian, Baron Hunt of Chesterton.
Nevertheless, or Buttress,in tune with his fellow party members in Hunt’s seat of Stoke-on-Trent Central, said he was not seeking the deselection of the television presenter turned MP, and dismissing such talk as “guff”.
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Source: theguardian.com