[4] Belcher is a Wiltshire Councillor and the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Reading West and Mid Berkshire, having previously stood for Parliament in Chippenham.
It was claimed that Turner had contributed to a number of articles in the press that resisted the Government's proposed reform to the Gender Recognition Act, with Belcher suggesting that trans suicides had increased as a result.
[12][13] Belcher stood as a Liberal Democrat in the election for the Evendons ward of Wokingham Borough Council in 2016 but lost by 122 votes to the Conservative candidate.
[14] Later that year, she was selected as Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate to replace Duncan Hames in his former constituency of Chippenham, where she was unsuccessful in the 2017 general election against the incumbent Conservative, Michelle Donelan.
[17] In 2023 Belcher was selected as the Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate for the new constituency of Reading West and Mid Berkshire at the 2024 general election.