Durant stood unsuccessfully for Rother Valley in the 1970 general election; the seat was retained by Labour's Peter Hardy.
In 1971 Durant supported Margaret Thatcher's decision to end free school milk on the grounds that many children did not like it.
[3] In 1994, he successfully campaigned for the lowering of the homosexual age of consent.
[4] Durant served as president of the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust and the River Thames Society, chairman of the Sports Aid Foundation’s southern region, as a governor of the British Film Institute, and a Freeman of the City of London and the Watermen and Lightermen’s Company.
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