Lilian Greenwood


Lilian Rachel Greenwood is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Nottingham South since the 2010 general election.

Pre-parliamentary career

Greenwood was born on the 26 March 1966 in Bolton, Lancashire. She attended Canon Slade School, a Church of England state secondary school in Bolton before attending St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. She moved to Southwell in Nottinghamshire in 1999. She worked in Nottingham for the public sector trade union, UNISON for 17 years prior to 2010.

Parliamentary career

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.
In July 2010, she was appointed to the Transport Select Committee. She was subsequently appointed as an Assistant Whip.
In late September 2011, she was asked by Ed Miliband to take the role of Shadow Minister of Transport.
She was re-elected at the 2015 general election.
Following the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Labour Party, on 14 September 2015 she was named as the Shadow Secretary of State for Transport. Following the Brexit referendum, Greenwood resigned, among 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.
She was re-elected at the 2017 United Kingdom general election, and was re-elected once again at the 2019 General Election.
Greenwood has served on the Transport Committee, Education Committee, Regulatory Reform Committee and Liaison Committee.
On 14 February 2020, Greenwood self-quarantined herself after learning that she and Alex Sobel, another Labour MP, had attended a conference eight days earlier where a confirmed COVID-19 pandemic case had also been in attendance.