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He was elected to the House of Commons as MP for Bristol West in 1979. He was regarded as a member of the "wet" or moderate tendency of the Conservative Party, and his progress in Margaret Thatcher's government was slow: He became a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Education and Science in 1981 before moving to the Department of the Environment in 1983. He remained at Environment, becoming a Minister of State in 1985, until 1988 when he became a Minister of State at the Foreign Office.

He was promoted to the cabinet as Secretary of State for HealthMinister of Health redirects here. For the Canadian Minister of Health please see Minister of Health (Canada Secretary of State for Health is a UK cabinet position responsible for the Department of Health. The first Boards of Health were created by Orders in November 1990, just days before Thatcher's resignation, and remained at the cabinet table throughout John MajorThe Right Honourable John Major CH is a British politician and was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997, attaining that office when he succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Conservative Party leader. Early life Major was born March 29, 1943, th's time as Prime MinisterIn the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister is the head of government, exercising many of the executive functions nominally vested in the Sovereign, who is head of state. According to custom, the Prime Minister and the Cabinet (which he or she heads) are re. He became Chancellor of the Duchy of LancasterThe Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is, in modern times, a sinecure office in the British government. Originally the chief officer of the Duchy of Lancaster, the estate is now run by a deputy, leaving the position of Chancellor available as a Ministe in the Cabinet OfficeThe Cabinet Office is a United Kingdom government department. Its remit under the present administration is to support the Prime Minister in ensuring delivery of the Government's strategy with particular priority areas of education, health, transport and with responsibility for science in 1992, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and FoodThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food was a UK cabinet position, responsible for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Successive Ministers were asked to upgrade the Ministry to a Department of State and take the title 'Secretary of S in 1994 and Chief Secretary to the TreasuryThe Chief Secretary to the Treasury is a junior position in the British Cabinet. It was created in 1961, to share the burden of representing the treasury with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The position's responsibilities include negotiating with depart in 1995.

After losing his Commons seat to Valerie DaveyValerie Davey (born April 16, 1940) is the Labour Member of Parliament for Bristol West in England. She won the seat at the 1997 general election, displacing the cabinet minister William Waldegrave. Born in Surrey, Davey studied theology at the University in Labour's 1997 landslide, he entered the House of Lords as a life peer in 1999.

Lord Waldegrave is the younger son of the 12th Earl Waldegrave , and a brother of the present earl. He is married to Caroline Waldegrave , cookery writer and managing director of Leith's School of Food and Wine.