[2] He is currently the Liberal Democrat Chief Whip in the House of Lords, having been elected to that position in October 2016.

[3][4] He was later treasurer of the moderate Campaign for Labour Victory,[5] many of whose leading lights later joined the SDP.

[8] He was made a Life peer on 17 January 2011 as Baron Stoneham of Droxford, of Meon Valley in the County of Hampshire.

Lady Stoneham is appointed as Chair of The Board of Trustees of the charity St Christopher’s Fellowship and a member of the Avon Tyrrell Trust.

In the 2012 New Year Honours she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), for services to young people.