She was active in Militant and Liverpool politics along with her brother Roy Farrar in the 1970s and 1980s.
[1] She was also prominent in the campaign against the Poll Tax and was put forward to be the Labour candidate in the Liverpool Walton by-election caused by the death of Eric Heffer in 1991.
Although she won a majority of 92 out of 140 Walton Labour Party members, once the union votes were counted, Peter Kilfoyle became the Labour Party candidate.
The Walton by-election was a factor in the decision by Militant to leave the Labour Party, setting up first Militant Labour and then the Socialist Party.
[2] Mahmood was later active in support of the sacked Liverpool Dockers.