 She also served on the advisory committee on child care in Scotland from 1956–65, was chair of the Conservative Women's National Committee from 1954–57 and was chair of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations from 1956–67.She became the first chair of the Consumer Council in 1963.On three occasions, in 1954, 1956 and 1957, she was a member of the UK delegation to the United Nations and in the absence of ministers during the Suez crisis in 1956, she made a speech denouncing the Soviet invasion of Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.