He previously served in the May Government as Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General from 2017 to 2019 and as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council from May to July 2019.

From October 2022 to July 2024, during the government of Rishi Sunak, Stride served as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

After the Conservative Party's defeat in the 2024 general election, Stride was appointed Sunak's Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

In 1987, Stride set up a business jointly controlled with his wife, Venture Marketing Group, specialising in trade exhibitions, conferences and publishing,[6] which was expanded to the United States.

[11] On 28 October 2011, Stride was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of State for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning, John Hayes.

[18] In this role in April 2019, Stride was accused by MPs of breaking the Ministerial Code over comments he had made in relation to the Loan Charge.

[19][20] Stride was appointed Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council on 23 May 2019, following the resignation of Andrea Leadsom.

The comments came in response to reports that the government was considering scrapping the mechanism used to uprate the state pension having seen several years of large increases.