She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2013 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to Art. She is the Chair of the Government Art Collection Advisory Committee.
As I still regularly present news programmes for the BBC - and news presenters are obliged to be impartial - it's probably better if I keep most of my opinions to myself. However, based on my experience filming with Rip-Off Britain, and hearing first-hand people's deep upset at the way some things are, the first thing I'd do would be to look at the growing disparity between the very rich and the rest of us.
