Woodwark was a proponent of the traditional Liberal policy of Free Trade. He seems to have been a supporter of the Conservatives at one point but then associated himself with the Liberals. In 1926 he became Chairman of the Eastern Counties Liberal Federation. However his position is less certain as the crisis surrounding the National Government unfolded. At the 1931 general election Woodwark was publicly supporting the Conservative MP for his home town of King’s Lynn, Lord Fermoy for the National Government on the principle of sound money. This seems to have been as part of a general agreement between Conservatives, Liberals and Liberal Nationals in Norfolk. Woodwark maintained his support for the new National candidate at the 1935 general election, even though a Liberal candidate, Mr F Darvall, was adopted to contest the seat.