He returned to active politics to help run her by-election campaign,[1] having worked with her at the Jo Cox Foundation since the murder of her sister, who was MP for the constituency from 2015 to 2016.
[5] He received a First Class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Hertford College, Oxford: here, his early interest for media and journalism was evident in his involvement with the student newspaper, Cherwell.
As political correspondent and beyond, he interviewed every serving prime minister from James Callaghan to Tony Blair, and was the only journalist in Downing Street when the resignation of Margaret Thatcher was announced.
After seventeen years as a BBC journalist, he joined Tony Blair's staff at 10 Downing Street in 1998, where he was deputy to the Communications Director, Alastair Campbell.
Price was the co-author and principal photographer for the Berlitz Guide to Iceland, published in 2003, and he maintains an active interest in travel and photography.
The book was published before the phone-hacking scandal of 2010, and argued that successive British governments had been too close to powerful media interests, including Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.
[3] Lance Price was called to give evidence to a Select Committee of the House of Commons in January 2006, in response to his first publication of The Spin Doctor's Diary.
Despite the initial and ongoing controversy, The Spin Doctor's Diary was shortlisted for Political Book of the Year in the Channel 4 News Awards of 2006.
[16] Total Politics reviewer Peter Riddle surmises that Price places the media question "firmly in its historical context".
[17] The Financial Times's John Lloyd described the book as an "elegant and well grounded survey of relations between premieres and the press in the UK over the past century".
He has taken an increasingly independent line on political affairs, and was one of the first to call for Gordon Brown to step down as prime minister after Labour's election defeat in May 2010.
In September 2014, he published an article in the Independent criticising the then Labour leader Ed Miliband's perceived paranoia of Tony Blair, and attacking his often "too late" communication style.
[21] The launch was hosted by Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow MP, who acknowledged the "global challenge" with regard to advancing LGBT rights outside of the UK.
David Cameron, the then Prime Minister, endorsed the project: "In some countries, it's simply appalling how people can be treated – how their rights are trampled on and the prejudices, and even violence, they suffer.