He received a knighthood in 1980, and on 26 May 1981 he was created a life peer, taking the title Baron Beloff, "of Wolvercote in the County of Oxfordshire". He spoke often on educational and constitutional matters in the House of Lords and, outside of the chamber, continued to write. He was a strong Eurosceptic and argued that Britain's history made it incompatible with membership of the European Union, which led to him writing "Britain and European Union: Dialogue of the Deaf", published in 1996.