Cika wannan jumla: A shekara ta 1984, ya tsira daga
Bam din Brighton a taron jam'iyyar Conservative. An dauke shi a matsayin mai kula da harkokin siyasa, an kira shi "Westminster's baby-faced hit man", by "The Guardian" a 1987. Daga 1994 zuwa 1995, ya yi aiki a cikin gwamnatin John Major a matsayin mataimakin shugaban Jam'iyyar Conservative.