She then became a policy adviser to Neil Kinnock in his office as Leader of the Opposition 1985–92.

[citation needed] She was created a life peer as Baroness Andrews, of Southover in the County of East Sussex on 9 May 2000.

She was then appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government.

[citation needed] On 27 July 2009, Andrews became the Chair of English Heritage.

Andrews was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1998 Birthday Honours[5][3] On 15 October 2015, she was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA).