[4] She was created a life peer on 26 January 2011 as Baroness Jenkin of Kennington, of Hatfield Peverel in the County of Essex.

"[9][10] Later that day, in another interview about the report's launch, she apologised for the remark, saying she was speaking without a script and had made a mistake:[10] "What I meant was as a society we have lost our ability to cook" which was a problem affecting low income families most severely.

[12] In the debate on social media regulation in the House of Lords, Jenkin claimed that a candidate had been referred to as a "fucking Tory cunt".

Jenkin said: "During the election campaign in June, the Ealing Central and Acton Conservative candidate was met daily outside her home by a large group of Momentum and Labour activists yelling at her, and I quote—and please, my Lords, forgive the unparliamentary language and block your ears if you are sensitive or easily offended—“Fucking Tory cunt”.

[6] In 2021, perceiving a conflict between rights of "trans-women and those of women and girls", Jenkin dissociated herself from recent stances of Stonewall, a charity she had previously supported, and declared herself "gender critical".

[16] In 2017, Jenkin was chair of the Centre for Social Justice Off the Scales working group on childhood obesity in England.