Waterson was the Shadow Minister for Pensions and Conservative Spokesman for Older People.
Waterson lost his seat to the Liberal Democrat Stephen Lloyd in the 2010 general election.
[7] In 2010 the Metropolitan Police Service apologised for any distress caused by the arrest, accepting the allegations were wholly unfounded, and paid damages and costs to Waterson in settlement of a civil claim for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment.
[9] His girlfriend was found guilty of child cruelty in May 2019, and sentenced to two and a half years in prison, but the jury failed to reach a verdict on Stephen Waterson.
[10] On the first day of his re-trial in September 2019, he changed his plea to guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence.