By Tom Mctague, Mail Online Deputy Political Editor Labour education spokesman Tristram Hunt has been ticked off after his new history book was found to be riddled with errors - by his Tory rival Michael Gove. Mr Hunt, a professional historian, has boasted of his 'deep and sustained reading' of history compared to the Education Secretary's ‘superficial understanding of the past’. But the Labour MP, whose latest work - Ten Cities that Made an Empire - is set to be published next week, made at least 14 basic errors on dates, names and events according to a review of the book written by Mr Gove.
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Hunt's book on the British Empire contains at least 14 mistakes
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Errors were unearthed by Tory Education Secretary in newspaper review
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Hunt has boasted of his 'deep and sustained' reading of history
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Dismissed Gove's grasp of history as 'superficial understanding of the past'
Education Secretary @placeholder praised his opposite number's new work - but picked out 14 errors that could be corrected for the paperback version