While working as a teacher, she studied biology and zoology part-time at University College London, graduating with first class honours.

[citation needed] Under her maiden name Moore, Gorman attempted to enter the House of Commons as an Independent candidate for the Conservative-held seat of Streatham in the October 1974 general election, polling 210 votes.

[4] The night after she was elected she appeared on a notable edition of the Channel 4 late-night discussion programme After Dark when she "stormed off the set".

[4] In 1992, Gorman introduced an amendment to the Representation of the People Act under the Ten Minute Rule to give two seats to each constituency, one for a male MP and one for a female.

The Commons' Standards and Privileges Committee also found she should not have introduced a Ten Minute Rule Bill in 1990 proposing the repeal of the Rent Acts without registering and declaring a financial interest.

[4] Considered an able but maverick politician, Gorman was known for her public endorsement of hormone replacement therapy[4] her tattooed eyebrows (she shaved them off as a teenager and they never grew back) and her belief that rapists should be castrated.

Gorman was censured by the House of Commons Standards and Privileges Committee for a failure to declare a relevant interest and other breaches of the code of conduct.

[4] The committee found that she failed to declare that her husband Jim Gorman owned three properties in London when she proposed the repeal of the Rents Act.

Moreover, during its investigation the privileges committee MPs found she gave "seriously misleading and inaccurate information", breached the code of conduct for members and improperly contacted witnesses.