 She served as a Deputy Speaker of the House to Betty Boothroyd from 1992 until she retired from the Commons in 1997.The constituency was abolished for the 1997 general election, with its wards being transferred to the redrawn constituency of Plymouth Sutton, which was gained by the Labour Party in the Blair landslide of that year.Most of the territory of Drake is now covered by the constituency of Plymouth Sutton and Devonport.