 Elliot then became involved in Conservative affairs, wrote speeches for, and campaigned in elections for, her husband, as well as promoting his enactment of the Milk Marketing Board.Still in touch with her Liberal roots, she favoured prison reform and was an opponent of capital punishment.From 1939–49, Elliot was chair of the National Association of Mixed Clubs and Girls' Clubs (later known as Youth Clubs UK) and she sat on the Home Office advisory committee on the treatment of offenders from 1946–62, during which time she visited every prison in the kingdom.