Returned as a Whig for Grampound, West voted with the Administration in every recorded division, except that on Lord Cadogan in June 1717, when he voted with the Whig Opposition. He did not stand in 1722. After his accession to the peerage in 1723, he became one of the principal ministerial representatives in the Lords.
if the King chose him to prevent the Prince’s having any jealousy of the future bride’s affections being purloined on the way by him who was sent to attend her to England, was the properest man his Majesty could have pitched upon; for, except his white staff and red ribband as knight of the Bath, I know of nothing belonging to the long, lank, awkward person of Lord Delaware that could attract her eyes; nor do I believe there could be found in any of the Goth or Vandal courts of Germany a more unpolished ambassador for such an occasion.
Ibid. 548-9.
He died 16 Mar. 1766.