She was the first Political Writer in Residence at Sussex University[6] in 2016-17 Roberts has compared Jeremy Corbyn to Clement Attlee.
She wrote, "What many of the so-called expert political analysts and Labour MPs who rate polish and pragmatism over consistency and conviction failed to recognise is precisely what many of the young spotted immediately – Corbyn’s integrity.
One that promises investment in the NHS, in childcare, in schools, in social care, renationalising utilities, making the state a catalyst for higher skills, improved production, more money raised from tax revenues as the number of real jobs grow and, along with it, the economic security and hope of ordinary families, for so long absent".
She wrote about Sarah Reed, a seriously mentally ill woman who died on remand in Holloway Prison following what a coroner's inquest said was neglect and inappropriate treatment.
According to Roberts: "The inability of mental health services to cope means [that] thousands of vulnerable women like Sarah are on a conveyor belt to understaffed prisons where, frequently, harsh discipline is imposed".