James Price: What Alex Burghart’s speech tells us about the Tories intellectual firepower

James Price: What Alex Burghart’s speech tells us about the Tories intellectual firepower

James Price is a Senior Fellow at the Adam Smith Institute and former Chief of Staff to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. “It becomes no man to nurse despair, But in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, To follow up the worthiest till he die” Noble words from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and apt ones for the Conservative Party to dwell on during its long rebuilding. But it is another Alfred, no less than the Great, who inspires Alex Burghart, the Shadow …