On being asked why entry had never been refused on previous journeys to Britain by Ward, a Home Office spokesman said "I don't know. It may have been a mistake or oversight." Formal protests were made to the Home Office by Tory Members of Parliament (MPs) John Biggs-Davison, Sir Patrick Wall, and Teddy Taylor. In 1982 he wrote an article entitled "Zimbabwe Today" for the Monday Club's journal, "Monday World", prophetic in its content. His wife died in 1986 and he moved to Great Britain. Three of his four children remained in South Africa. At the October 1988 Conservative Party Conference, Western Goals (UK) (which Ward had also joined) held a fringe meeting on the subject of "International Terrorism - how the West can fight back". Harvey Ward, Sir Alfred Sherman, Rev Martin Smyth, MP, and Andrew Hunter, MP, were the speakers. The latter spoke concerning top-level links between the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and African National Congress (ANC). In 1989 Ward was working for James Gibb Stuart at Ossian Books Ltd. in Glasgow. He continued to travel and lecture, and joined the Conservative Party. He became an active member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Conservative Monday Club, and by 1990 was a member of the Club's Executive Council. In 1991 Ward is claimed to have worked in conjunction with South African security policeman Paul Erasmus to secretly leak false accusations against Winnie Mandela and her daughters, accusing them of being nymphomaniacs and drug abusers. The reports were described as having come from dissidents in the African National Congress, and were issued in an effort to divide the ANC's leadership. They were subsequently taken up by papers such as "The Independent", the "Sunday Times" and "Vanity Fair". Erasmus later acknowledged profound regret for his actions in this and other matters, and affected a reconciliation with Mandela. He claimed Ward's role in the propaganda campaign during the late 1990s, but only after Ward had died. In the early 1990s Ward's fourth child Rowena, who had been in the British Police Service returned to live in South Africa and Ward followed, taking up residence in Port Elizabeth with his son, Harvey and his daughter in law Kathy. His last public engagement was speaking at the Robbie Burns Society in Port Elizabeth in March 1995. One month later had a heart attack during a game of bowls, and died.