In 2017, Black considered not standing for a second term in the next general election due to the fact that "so little gets done".[31] Despite this, Black decided to stand at the 2017 general election and was re-elected with a much smaller majority.[32][2] She told BBC Scotland that she's "glad to be re-elected to go back down and continue to batter into whoever is in government that austerity is not working, it's not benefiting people's lives whatsoever. The people it is benefiting, you could argue, are the ones who need it least."[33]