Member of Parliament
Hurd became PPS to the then Conservative leader Edward Heath, and was first elected to Parliament in February 1974 to represent the constituency of Mid Oxfordshire. At the 1983 general election the seat was replaced by Witney, and he remained MP for that seat until his retirement from the House of Commons in 1997 having served 23 years in Parliament. (Since 2001 this constituency has been represented by the Leader of the Conservative Party and current Prime Minister David Cameron.)
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