[1] She became a life peer for the Conservative party on 11 June 1990 as Baroness Flather, of Windsor and Maidenhead in the Royal County of Berkshire.

[1] In 1998 she resigned as the Conservative whip over the demotion of Viscount Cranborne for his actions to reduce the impact of the 1999 House of Lords Act.

Flather was also at one time a teacher of English as a second language and a member of the Conservative Women's National Committee.

She had served senior posts in various organisations involved in refugee, community, race relations and prison work.

Flather was a distinguished supporter of Humanists UK and an honorary associate of the National Secular Society.

Perhaps her most important contribution was to help create a memorial to the volunteers from the Indian Subcontinent, Africa and the Caribbean who fought with the British in two World Wars.

[8] Labour Party MP Michael Dugher later condemned her and said that her views were “ignorant” and unacceptable - she later admitted that her statement had “gone too far.”[9] Flather made further controversial comments in November 2012, when she defended Conservative election strategist Lynton Crosby, during an incident in which he used an offensive term referring to Muslims at a meeting when he was working for Mayor of London Boris Johnson.

[10] She said: "I don’t condone swearing, but Lynton is right to say it is pointless for the Conservatives to chase Muslim votes.