{"id":178936,"date":"2024-11-20T15:55:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T15:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/20\/alex-burghart-have-the-tories-found-a-new-rising-star\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T15:55:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T15:55:03","slug":"alex-burghart-have-the-tories-found-a-new-rising-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/20\/alex-burghart-have-the-tories-found-a-new-rising-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Burghart: Have the Tories found a new rising star?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Just who is Alex Burghart? And have the Tories found a new rising star?<\/p>\n

Alex who? As veteran MPs like to joke about young upstarts in politics who are largely unknown, he’s not even a household name in his own home.<\/p>\n

But he has long been a member of Kemi’s<\/a><\/strong> gang and resigned from Boris Johnson’s government along with the future Tory leader over the Chris Pincher scandal in 2022.<\/p>\n

Mr Burghart is 47, but looks younger, and succeeded Tory big beast Eric Pickles as Conservative MP for Brentwood and Ongar, on London’s border with Essex, in 2017.<\/p>\n

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Educated at Millfield public school, he’s a brainy historian with an Oxford BA and a PhD from King’s College, London, and has written for BBC History and the Times Literary Supplement.<\/p>\n

But until his impressive debut as Kemi Badenoch’s stand-in against Angela Rayner<\/a><\/strong> at PMQs<\/a><\/strong>, his climb up the greasy pole of politics had been worthy but unspectacular.<\/p>\n

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He was initially a history teacher and university tutor, before working for Iain Duncan Smith’s Centre for Social Justice thinktank and writing a book about vulnerable children.<\/p>\n

He also worked for the Children’s Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, before becoming Theresa May’s special adviser on social policy when she became prime minister in 2016.<\/p>\n

Once in parliament, he was a parliamentary private secretary – unpaid bag-carrier – to attorney generals Geoffrey Cox and Jeremy Wright and Karen Bradley, then Northern Ireland secretary.<\/p>\n

His big break came when Boris Johnson became prime minister in 2019 and made him his PPS (parliamentary private secretary) and two years later he became a junior education minister, responsible for apprenticeships.<\/p>\n

But his own apprenticeship for the big jobs came to a halt when along with Kemi Badenoch and her other close allies Neil O’Brien, Lee Rowley and Julia Lopez he quit in protest against the Pincher sleaze scandal.<\/p>\n

Rishi Sunak<\/a><\/strong> appointed him to the unglamorous jobs of junior pensions minister and then junior Cabinet Office minister and it was only after this year’s 4 July election that he joined the shadow cabinet.<\/p>\n

Like many up-and-coming Conservative MPs, Mr Burghart married into a Tory dynasty. His wife is journalist and author Hermione Gingold, daughter of late Tory MP Sir Reg Eyre, who served in the governments of Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher.<\/p>\n

But after a low-profile career until now, Mr Burghart’s fellow MPs certainly know who he is after a direct and punchy performance at PMQs in which he accused Labour of broken promises and declaring war on farmers.<\/p>\n

Some insiders claimed that he had been more effective than Ms Badenoch, whose performances in her first two PMQs clashes with Sir Keir Starmer<\/a><\/strong> have been less than startling.<\/p>\n

After this debut he’s clearly one to watch. Some Tories even suggested that on this showing he’s future party leader if Kemikaze, as her detractors unkindly call her, falters.<\/p>\n

Praise indeed. However, Alex Burghart v Labour rising star Darren Jones in a battle for No. 10 in a future general election, anyone?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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