Election and Committee Memberships
She served as a councillor on Northampton Borough Council from 1956–66, where she was whip. Knight unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary seat of Northampton in 1959 and 1964 for the Conservative Party. She was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Edgbaston in 1966, which she held in successive elections until 1997.
Knight was a member of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Race Relations and Immigration, 1969–1972, on the Select Committee for the Council of Europe from 1977, Home Affairs 1980–1983, Lady Chairman of the Lords and Commons All-Party Child and Family Protection Group from 1978, on the Conservative Back-bench Health and Social Services Committee 1982 –, Secretary to the 1922 Committee 1983–1987.
She was President of the West Midlands Conservative Political Centre 1980–1983 and Lady Chairman of the Western European Union Relations with Parliaments Committee, 1984–1988. She served on the Council of Europe (1977–88), and as Chairman, British Inter-Parliamentary Union (1994–97).
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