She then worked for the South Western Electricity Board, and as an insurance underwriter, and later as a medical receptionist at a GP surgery.

[6] She served as a Governor of Torpoint School for nine years until 2008, before standing down to concentrate on campaigning for the forthcoming general election.

[7][8] The Conservative whips' office apologised for Murray's behaviour after she was reportedly drunk and disorderly in the House of Commons bar in 2010.

[16] In 2016, the Labour Party unsuccessfully proposed an amendment in Parliament that would have required private landlords to make their homes "fit for human habitation".

According to Parliament's register of interests, Murray was one of 72 Conservative MPs who voted against the amendment who personally derived an income from renting out property.

The Conservative Government had responded to the amendment that they believed homes should be fit for human habitation but did not want to pass the new law that would explicitly require it.

[17] During the 2017 general election campaign in early June, Murray said at a hustings meeting: "If for instance somebody had moved house, or if their financial situation had changed while they're going through the reassessment and their benefits are delayed, then sometimes they need to call upon the food banks.

[25] Her main policy interests are the environment and tourism; she has campaigned on fisheries issues as a spokesperson for Save Britain's Fish and is a member of the Fishermen's Association.

[26] On 10 March 2021, she took the opportunity of a Prime Minister's Question to suggest that British people should take advantage of Brexit to eat more British-caught fish.

[27] In March 2022, Murray called for the creation of a national 'Margaret Thatcher Day', which was endorsed by minister Kemi Badenoch.