 Unlike her father she did not join National Labour; however, as she remained hostess at 10 Downing Street, the Labour Group decided in November 1931 that she was ineligible to receive the Labour whip.She then sat as an 'Independent Socialist' on the council.After her father retired as Prime Minister for the last time in 1935 she bought a country pub (The Old Plow, at Speen near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire) and ran it for 17 years.