 She served as a director of the No 2 AV campaign during the UK's 2011 referendum on changing its voting system, later working as Executive Director of 'Conservatives In', an unsuccessful campaign supporting a remain vote in the 2016 European Union membership referendum.She was nominated for a life peerage in the 2016 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours and was created Baroness Vere of Norbiton, of Norbiton in the Royal London Borough of Kingston upon Thames, on 30 August 2016.On 21 December 2016, she was appointed as a Baroness in Waiting (i.e.