[2] She resigned to contest the Wolverhampton South-West parliamentary seat for Labour during the 1951 general election, but was defeated by the incumbent Conservative Enoch Powell.

[2] With support of those in the Wilson government and the backing of close friend Richard Crossman,[1] who described her in his diaries as "the real politician" when her husband was elevated to the peerage,[1] she was created a life peer as Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe, of Hastoe in the County of Hertfordshire on 29 August 1967.

[4] She died on 6 November 1997, aged 82, in Colchester, at the home of former Conservative minister Lord Alport, who nursed her during the final years of her life.

[1] Shortly after her death Alport met academic Mark Garnett, who was working for Sir Edward Heath on his memoirs, and he asked him to write his life story.

Speaking to The Guardian, Garnett said of the meeting: "He was wearing a black tie and he mentioned the recent death of a 'close friend'.