re-elected at the 2010 General Election, with her majority reduced by more than a half. McCarthy was appointed as an acting Shadow Minister for Work and Pensions in May 2010 with responsibility for disability. She supported Ed Balls in the 2010 Labour leadership election, and became a junior Shadow Treasury Minister following Ed Miliband's election in October 2010. In September 2011, McCarthy was made Shadow Foreign Office Minister with a responsibility for East Asia, South Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and human rights. On World Vegan Day in November 2011, McCarthy became the first MP to set out in Parliament the case for becoming vegan. She is also believed to be the first MP to deliver a speech in Parliament with the aid of an iPad. After being re-elected with an increased majority in the 2015 General Election, McCarthy nominated Andy Burnham in that year's Labour leadership campaign. She was appointed by Jeremy Corbyn as Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in September 2015. She argued in a Spring 2015 interview with Viva!life, a magazine for vegans, that meat should be treated like tobacco, with "public campaigns to stop people eating it". Tim Bonner of the Countryside Alliance said her opinions "are completely out of step with the vast majority of people". "The world is not going to turn vegan because I am in post", McCarthy said on BBC Radio 4's Farming Today shortly after her appointment. "I have my own personal views on what I choose to eat, but I accept that we have a livestock industry in this country. What I want is for the industry to have the best welfare standards possible, to be sustainable as well as economically viable." On 26 June 2016, McCarthy was among dozens of shadow ministers who resigned from Corbyn's team. She argued that "a new leader is needed to take on the challenges ahead". According to McCarthy, in an article for The Huffington Post: "When the leader's office did venture into Defra territory, they didn't talk to the shadow team". McCarthy did not believe Corbyn was the right Labour leader or a potential prime minister. She supported Owen Smith in the 2016 Labour leadership election. In November 2017, McCarthy raised a complaint of inappropriate behaviour against Kelvin Hopkins, Labour MP for Luton North, which remained unresolved at the time Hopkins stepped down as an MP before the