He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1956 to 1987 and served as Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1967 and as Chairman of the party's 1922 Committee from 1972 to 1984.
He was secretary of the 1922 Committee 1965-66, and from 1976-82 he served as a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons under George Thomas.
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names | International Olympic Committee | Committee of Public Safety | UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee | Republican National Committee | Central Committee | Democratic National Committee | House Un-American Activities Committee | International Committee of the Red Cross | 1922 | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary | United States House Committee on Ways and Means | United States Olympic Committee | American Jewish Committee | United States House Committee on the Judiciary | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations | Judicial Committee of the Privy Council | International Paralympic Committee | Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | United States House Committee on Appropriations | Italian National Olympic Committee | Committee to Protect Journalists | International Rescue Committee | United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations | United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform | United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs | United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce | Committee of General Security | Committee on Public Lands | Committee of Union and Progress |
Her grandfather, Sir Henry Legge-Bourke (1914–1973), was member of parliament for the Isle of Ely from 1945 until 1973 and was chairman of the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbenchers.
In March 2012, Baroness Warsi was criticised by a number of Conservative MPs at a meeting of the 1922 Committee for her handling of MEP Roger Helmer's defection to UKIP.