In the 2010 general election, he defeated incumbent MP Mike Foster to win the Worcester seat, eighteen years after his father retired as a member of parliament for the same constituency (with revised boundaries) and joined the House of Lords.
The passage describes a political victory where the subject won the seat in 2010, following in the footsteps of his father who had previously held the position. This occurred eighteen years after his father's retirement from parliament (with altered boundaries) and entry into the House of Lords.