He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union.

[1] Bridges was educated at Rokeby Preparatory School, then attended Eton College followed by Exeter College, Oxford, where he received a BA degree (later promoted to an MA by seniority).

Bridges was Assistant Political Secretary to the Prime Minister John Major from 1994 to 1997.

[2] In the 2000s he served as Chairman of the Research Department and Campaign Director of the Conservative Party.

[3][4] Bridges served as a parliamentary secretary at the Department for Exiting the European Union in 2016 and 2017.