Greenwood was selected as the Labour Party candidate for the
2010 general election after the incumbent Labour MP,
Alan Simpson, announced in 2007 that he would not stand for re-election. She was elected as the MP with 37.3% of the vote, a margin of 4.4% over her closest rival. Shortly after her election, she joined the
Transport Select Committee, and was subsequently appointed as an assistant opposition
whip. In late September 2011, she was promoted by Labour leader
Ed Miliband to the role of Shadow Minister for Rail, a position she held until her re-election in the
2015 general election. Following the election of
Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Labour Party, on 14 September 2015 she was promoted to the
Shadow cabinet as the
Shadow Secretary of State for Transport. Greenwood resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in the aftermath of the
2016 EU referendum,
along with dozens of her colleagues, in protest against what she saw as
Jeremy Corbyn's weak leadership. She supported
Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace
Jeremy Corbyn in the
2016 Labour Party leadership election. As a backbencher, Greenwood has chaired the
Transport Select Committee and the
Commons Finance Committee, and sat on the
Liaison Committee,
Education Select Committee and
Regulatory Reform Committee. She was re-elected at the
2017 and
2019 General Elections, and backed
Lisa Nandy in the
2020 Labour Party leadership election. Greenwood returned to the opposition front bench in May 2021, when she was appointed by Labour leader
Keir Starmer as the Opposition Deputy
Chief Whip of the
House of Commons for legislation, succeeding Alan Campbell following his promotion to Chief Whip. Greenwood is a member of
Labour Friends of Israel. ==Personal life==