In September 2002, Black wrote a paper for the committee expressing concern about the invading Iraq. In 2003, she wrote a statement encouraging the government to hold a referendum on introducing the Euro. Later that year, she voted in favour of readmitting the mayor of London Ken Livingstone to the Labour Party after he had been expelled for running for election against a Labour candidate in the 2000 London mayoral election, but against using the selection method a Labour incumbent official would go through. In 2004, she wrote to the Labour leader and prime minister Tony Blair opposing his invitation of Ayad Allawi, the prime minister of Iraq, saying that "most people want to put Iraq behind them and unite around Labour's positive domestic agenda". She spoke out against the Labour government's plans to introduce ID cards in 2005. She was re-elected a CLP representative in 2006. In 2009, she served as vice-chair of the NEC. In the same year, she was one of three members of a panel of NEC members that investigated allegations against Labour MPs in the United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal. In 2010, she was chair of the NEC.