in february 2018, she was appointed as an lgbt adviser to the labour party, which she resigned from the following month. bergdorf later blamed "conservative media" for using her as a "political pawn to bring down jeremy corbyn" and that the labour lgbt advisory board was being targeted to be shut down, stating "when i left they went after somebody else, and then when that person left they went after somebody else" in order to "discredit jeremy corbyn".