County Councillor
Ward was already committed to the Conservative Party and was elected Chairman of the Young Conservatives in the Wessex area. In 1965 Ward began his political career when he was elected to Berkshire County Council. He became chairman of the Road Safety committee and in February 1969 he condemned the state of the A4 between Reading and Hungerford as a "killer road", after 38 people were killed on the road in the space of eighteen months.
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