Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Kirk ya fi sha'awar harkokin waje da tsaro, kasancewar wakilin majalisar dokokin Burtaniya a Majalisar Turai daga 1956 - 1963 kuma daga 1966 - 1970. Ya kuma yi aiki a cikin tawagar majalisar Burtaniya da Amurka da kwamitocin daban-daban na Tarayyar Yammacin Turai. Kasancewa matashi ne don yin yaƙi a Yaƙin Duniya na II (duk da cewa ya shafe shi sosai), ya ji kiran Winston Churchill na Amurka ta Turai a watan Satumbar 1946, kuma ya ba da yawancin aikinsa don kawo wannan. Ya yi adawa da
Harkokin Birtaniya a Suez a shekara ta 1956, amma mai goyon bayan goyon bayan Birtaniya a cikin Kasuwanci na Kasuwanci a 1973, kuma babban mai gwagwarmaya don ci gaba da kasar a cikin zaben raba gardama na 1975. Wani mai magana da harshen Jamusanci da Faransanci, ya yi sha'awar yadda Jamusawa suka sake gina kasarsu kuma suka samar da zaman lafiya, kwanciyar hankali da tsarin siyasa mai kyau a bayan 1945. A gida ya yi yaƙin neman zaɓe sosai don kawar da hukuncin kisa.