[23] In August 2020, Nici was one of 25 Conservative MPs and peers to sign a letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel urging "stronger enforcement" against people crossing the English Channel in small boats, considering it to be "strikingly clear that, rather than a 'hostile environment', invading migrants have been welcomed".

[24][failed verification] In October 2020, Nici was appointed a Parliamentary Private Secretary in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, making her part of the payroll vote.

[25] During the United Kingdom's second national lockdown in November 2020, Nici self-isolated after attending a meeting in 10 Downing Street with the prime minister and several other Conservative MPs including Lee Anderson, who subsequently tested positive for COVID-19.

[28] In a September 2021 interview with YouTuber Mahyar Tousi, Nici expressed her belief that "there are some very sinister, extreme left-wing things going on in our country and they're trying to lobby government and companies".

[29] In December 2021, amid the Westminster lockdown parties controversy, Nici maintained that Johnson's moral authority had not been lost,[30] and expressed her displeasure with whistleblowers who had brought attention to the matter, declaring that they "should be ashamed".

[31] Following Johnson's subsequent admission that he had attended a Downing Street garden party during the United Kingdom's first national lockdown, Nici defended him, stating that "nobody is perfect.

"[32] The following day, she asserted her belief that both the party and the leaks surrounding it were part of a plot against the prime minister by civil servants who did not want the United Kingdom to leave the EU.

The day after Johnson's resignation, she was appointed as a parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department for Levelling Up in his lame duck government, pending the election of a new Conservative leader.