Mobarik is a vice chair of the APPG for Foreign Affairs. She was appointed as a Conservative life peer in2014. From 2015 to 2017, Mobarik served as a party whip and then as a government whip from 2016 to 2017 for the Department for International Trade and the Department for International Development. In September 2017, she became the Conservative MEP for Scotland until the Brexit process was completed in January 2020.