In 2006 he chaired the Conservative Party's Human Rights Commission and in 2010 he took over Andrew Mitchell's leadership of Project Umubano, the Conservative Party's social action project in Rwanda and Sierra Leone.
In 2006 he chaired the Conservative Party's Human Rights Commission and from 2007-2009 he sat on the International Development Committee. In 2010 he took over Andrew Mitchell's leadership of Project Umubano, the Conservative Party's social action project in Rwanda and Sierra Leone.