[8] He was director and co-founder of an international broadcast manufacturing and management group for 11 years prior to his election to Parliament.

[9] Fabricant was the Conservative candidate in South Shields at the 1987 general election, coming second with 25.7% of the vote behind the incumbent Labour MP David Clark.

Prior to the 1997 general election, Fabricant's constituency of Mid Staffordshire was abolished, and replaced with Lichfield.

[21] Also in 2008, Fabricant took part in a series of adjournment debates on government funding for inland waterways,[22] and called for heavy goods freight to move off Britain's roads and back onto the restored canal network.

[27] Fabricant was sacked as vice-chairman of the Conservative Party in April 2014 after he tweeted "about time" with regard to Maria Miller's resignation as cabinet minister.

[33] Fabricant wrote in The Guardian in November 2017 to rebut claims about him that had appeared on a Westminster dossier making assertions about the behaviour of Conservative MPs.

[35] Fabricant attracted media attention for having an apartheid-era flag of South Africa on display on the mantelpiece of his parliamentary office.

[37] On 12 April 2022, Fabricant urged Boris Johnson to apologise after he was fined for a breach of Covid rules.

I think that at the time he just thought like many teachers and nurses who after a very long shift would tend to go back to the staff room and have a quiet drink".

[38] The remark was criticised by official bodies representing teachers and nurses, who said they did no such thing, and Fabricant said he had not intended to cause offence.

[43] In June 2014, Fabricant came under criticism when, following an exchange between Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Rod Liddle on Channel 4 News the evening before, he tweeted that he "could never appear" on a discussion programme with her, as he "would either end up with a brain haemorrhage or by punching her in the throat.

A few days later, Fabricant wrote that he was "still deeply embarrassed and ashamed" and his tweet "appeared to have undone" his socially liberal voting record over the last 20 years.

[47] In August 2014, after Sayeeda Warsi resigned from David Cameron's government over its policy towards Israel's Operation Protective Edge, Fabricant was criticised for a Twitter remark that appeared to suggest Gaza was a "Muslim issue".

[49][50][51] In July 2018, Fabricant was accused of being Islamophobic over a subsequently-deleted tweet he shared depicting London mayor Sadiq Khan, who is a Muslim, in a sex act with a pig.

Fabricant subsequently deleted the tweet, stating that "attacks on the British police as shown in the video are disgraceful".

[53] In March 2022, Fabricant commented on social media that a proposed bill outlawing cyberflashing should include an exemption for dating apps.

[55][56] Fabricant was political adviser to the 1995 BBC drama series The Final Cut and made a cameo appearance in the broadcast.

[66] Fabricant was appointed a Knight Bachelor on 9 June 2023 as part of the 2022 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours.