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Jess Phillips
MP
Phillips in 2019
Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding
Incumbent
Assumed office
9 April 2020
LeaderKeir Starmer
Preceded byCarolyn Harris
(Safeguarding and Vulnerability)
Member of Parliament
for Birmingham Yardley
Incumbent
Assumed office
7 May 2015
Preceded byJohn Hemming
Majority10,659 (25.0%)
Personal details
Born
Jessica Rose Trainor

(1981-10-09) 9 October 1981 (age 43)
Birmingham, England
Political partyLabour
SpouseTom Phillips
Children2 sons
Alma mater
Websitejessphillips.net

Jessica Rose Phillips (née Trainor; born 9 October 1981) is a British Labour Party politician. She has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Yardley since the 2015 general election. She has served in Keir Starmer’s Opposition frontbench as Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding since 2020.

Phillips was appointed as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Lucy Powell, the Shadow Education Secretary, in 2015. A vocal critic of the former Leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn, Phillips resigned as a PPS in protest over Corbyn‘s leadership[1] and threatened to resign from the Labour Party and sit as an independent MP if Corbyn was re-elected as Labour Leader.[2] She supported Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace Corbyn in the 2016 leadership election and did not complete her pledge to resign as a Labour MP.[3] Phillips was a candidate for Labour Leader in the 2020 leadership election but withdrew from the later stages of the contest due to a lack of support.[4]

Early life and career

Jessica Rose Phillips[5] was born Jessica Rose Trainor[6] on 9 October 1981[7] in Birmingham, West Midlands.[8] The youngest of four children, Phillips is the daughter of Stewart Trainor, a teacher, and Jean Trainor (née Mackay), who was deputy chief executive of the NHS Confederation and chair of South Birmingham Mental Health Trust.[9][10][11] They were politically active: "Growing up with my father was like growing up with Jeremy Corbyn" she told Rachel Cooke of The Observer in March 2016.[12] Phillips went to King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls, a local grammar school.[12][13] Her childhood ambition was to become Prime Minister.[12]

Phillips studied economic and social history and social policy at the University of Leeds from 2000 to 2003. She has said she marched in protest against the Iraq War.[14] From 2011 to 2013, she studied for a postgraduate diploma in public sector management at the University of Birmingham. [15]

Phillips worked for a period for her parents at their company, Healthlinks Event Management Services.[15] From 2010 onwards, Phillips worked for the Women's Aid Federation of England[12] as a business development manager, responsible for managing refuges for victims of domestic abuse in Sandwell in the West Midlands.[16][17][18][19]

Phillips left the Labour Party during the years of Tony Blair's leadership, rejoining after the 2010 general election.[12] Her period at Women's Aid as an administrator made Phillips "utterly pragmatic... I learned that my principles don't matter as much as [people's] lives."[12] In the 2012 local elections, she was elected as a Labour councillor for the Longbridge ward, taking the seat from the Conservatives.[20] She was then appointed as the victims' champion at Birmingham City Council, lobbying police and criminal justice organisations on behalf of victims.[18][19][21][22] She also served on the West Midlands Police and Crime Panel.[15]

Parliamentary career

2015 parliament

Phillips was selected from an all-women shortlist[23] to contest Birmingham Yardley in June 2013, which was then represented by John Hemming of the Liberal Democrats.[24] In the 2015 general election, with an 11.7% swing away from the Liberal Democrats, Phillips was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP), receiving 17,129 votes (41.6%) and achieving a 6,595-vote majority (16.0%) over her closest rival.[25][26] Her maiden speech concerned homelessness and "improving [Britain]’s response to victims of domestic and sexual violence and abuse in all its forms."[27] In the 2015 Labour leadership election, Phillips nominated Yvette Cooper for Labour leader and Tom Watson for deputy leader.[28][29]

Positions and party issues

Phillips was appointed as the Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Lucy Powell, the Shadow Secretary of State for Education, in September 2015.[30]

Phillips verbally clashed with fellow Labour MP Diane Abbott on 14 September 2015 over the gender composition of Jeremy Corbyn's first Shadow Cabinet, claiming more disabled, lgbtq and Welsh should be represented. After she asked Corbyn why he had failed to appoint a woman to shadow the great offices of state, Abbott accused her of being "sanctimonious" and said that Phillips was "not the only feminist in the PLP (Parliamentary Labour Party)." Corbyn did not intervene.[31] Owen Bennett wrote in The Huffington Post that Phillips recounted: "I roundly told her to fuck off." When asked what Ms Abbott did after that suggestion, Ms Phillips replied: "She fucked off."[32] According to Diane Abbott in a January 2018 Guardian interview: "Jess Phillips never told me to fuck off. What was extraordinary is that she made a big deal of telling people she had."[33] Phillips later apologised.[34]

Phillips told Owen Jones in December 2015 that she had told Corbyn and his staff "to their faces: "The day that ... you are hurting us more than you are helping us, I won't knife you in the back, I'll knife you in the front," if it looked as though he was damaging Labour's chances of winning the next general election.[35] Responding to criticism about her use of language, Phillips said on Twitter: "I am no more going to actually knife Jeremy Corbyn than I am actually a breath of fresh air, or a pain in the arse."[35]

In June 2016, she resigned as PPS to Lucy Powell, the Shadow Secretary of State for Education, following the resignation of Powell and other Shadow Cabinet members over the leadership of Corbyn.[36] In July 2016, Phillips threatened to resign from the Labour Party and sit as an independent MP if Corbyn was re-elected as leader of the party, stating she would find it "incredibly difficult" to continue serving under Corbyn's leadership.[37] She supported Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace Corbyn in the 2016 Labour leadership election.[38]

In September 2016, she was elected chair of the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party (WPLP), defeating her predecessor Dawn Butler, considered a Corbyn ally.[39][40]

Phillips has commented that the "British Pakistani-Bangladeshi community" have "issues about women's roles in a family, in society" and were importing "wives for their disabled sons."[41]

She is a member of Labour Friends of Israel.[42]

Feminism

In October 2015, Phillips caused social media outrage after she mocked the Conservative MP Philip Davies for trying to get a debate about International Men's Day. He cited men's issues like increasing male suicides, lower life expectancy relative to women, male victims of domestic violence, low educational achievement by working class white boys and male experience of child custody cases.[43] Phillips openly laughed and pulled faces while Davies spoke, and then stated that: "You’ll have to excuse me for laughing. As the only woman on this committee, it seems like every day to me is International Men’s Day."[44][45] Davies responded by stating that, "If a male MP had reacted in that way about the need for debate on International Women's Day, there would have been hell to pay. It's entirely possible you'd be removed from Chambers or have the Whip removed. I'm surprised she finds that a laughing matter."[43][44] Colleagues from both leading parties agreed with Davies, and permission for a debate in Westminster Hall on the matter was eventually granted.[45] She wrote in The Independent: "I commend Philip Davies for changing the thrust of the debate to focus on male suicide – but in and of itself this day serves no useful function".[46]

In January 2016, Phillips said on Question Time that events akin to the mass sexual assaults in Cologne happened every week on Birmingham's Broad Street. She insisted any "patriarchal culture" must be challenged, but the UK should not "rest on its laurels" when two women are murdered every week.[47] In response to criticism she told the Birmingham Mail: "This isn't something that refugees have brought into our country. This is something that's always existed".[48][49] Journalist Joan Smith criticised these remarks and asked Phillips to admit she was wrong.[50]

Phillips criticised the gender makeup of Labour's Shadow Cabinet reshuffle in January 2016.[51][52]

Online abuse

Phillips is frequently targeted for abuse by anonymous users on social media.[53][54] In 2015, she was subjected to rape threats on social media following her objections to International Men's Day.[55][34] In May 2016, after campaigning against online bullying, Phillips said she received thousands of threatening or demeaning tweets within a 36-hour period, including allusions to rape.[56] After she complained to Twitter and was told the tweets did not break its rules, she accused the company of "colluding" with her abusers.[57][58]

In response to the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox, in June 2016, Phillips stated that it "makes me want to fight harder". She wrote that they both regularly received online abuse and threats.[59] In August 2016, she told The World at One on Radio 4 that a "panic room" was being installed in her constituency office which now has an alarm system, and that improved locks have been fitted at her home.[60][61]

In an interview with Stylist, published in October 2019, Phillips said of the hate she's experienced, "Fear and hatred can be the things that drive you. I don't always think of fear as a bad thing, it gives you fight-or-flight".[61]

2017 parliament

Phillips in 2017

Phillips criticised the calling of the 2017 snap election.[62] She was reselected as the Labour candidate for Birmingham Yardley, while her predecessor as MP for the seat John Hemming was reselected by the Liberal Democrats, in what was reported as a "grudge match".[63] Phillips subsequently gained 25,398 votes (57.1%), increasing her majority to 16,574 votes (37.2%) over the second-place Conservative candidate, with the Lib Dems finishing in third place.[64] Upon her victory, she continued her criticisms of Hemming.[65]

Following the 2017 snap general election, Phillips said the Women's PLP would co-ordinate to promote policies beneficial to women in the context of a hung parliament.[66]

In July 2017, Phillips called for a review into elections for chairs of House of Commons select committees due to the relatively low number of female candidates.[67]

In March 2018, Phillips again threatened to resign from the Labour Party, this time in response to Labour's handling of sexual harassment allegations against Labour MP Kelvin Hopkins, stating that she would "cut up her membership card" if the alleged victim was questioned by Hopkins as part of the investigation.[68]

In July 2018 it was reported that Phillips served as deputy editor of The House, the in-house Parliamentary magazine published by the Dods Group, which had been purchased by Conservative Party donor and former vice-chairman Michael Ashcroft, earning an annual salary of £8,000 for two hours' work per month.[69]

In March 2019, she said: "I think I'd be a good prime minister" and that "I feel like I can't leave the Labour Party without rolling the dice one more time. I owe it that. But it doesn't own me. It’s nothing more than a logo if it doesn't stand for something that I actually care about – it’s just a f***ing rose."[70][71]

Phillips also said in March 2019 that she would "leave her son on the steps of Downing Street" after it was announced that her son's school would finish earlier on a Friday due to budget cuts.[72][73]

In 2019, a controversy emerged as local Muslim parents in Saltley, Birmingham, associated with the Parkfield Community School, objected to lessons on relationships and inclusivity (including but not limited to teaching acceptance of LGBT people), being taught to their primary school children as part of Andrew Moffat's "No Outsiders" programme, on the grounds that LGBT relationships were immoral: one campaigner stated, "Morally, we do not accept homosexuality as a valid sexual relationship to have,”[74] while others misunderstood the lessons to be teaching children about gay sex.[75] Phillips spoke out publicly against the objecting parents, claiming to feel "bereft about this" and that the material was in her view not "inappropriate."[76] Phillips called for an exclusion zone to prevent protests outside Anderton Park Primary School in Balsall Heath against lessons on inclusivity.[77]

2019 parliament

In October 2019, Phillips said she thought Labour was unlikely to win a majority in a general election. She said if Labour was not elected the biggest party, Corbyn should resign as party leader, whereupon she might stand for the position.[78] In November 2019, it was announced Phillips would stand for the Labour Party in Birmingham Yardley in the 2019 general election.[79] She went on to win the seat once more, with 23,379 votes in her favour (securing a vote share of 54.8%). While the vote share represented a 2.3% decline from 2017,[80] this was relatively small compared to other constituencies: nationwide the Labour Party vote share in 2019 was 7.9% lower than in 2017.[81]

Leadership bid

Following Corbyn's decision to step down as Labour leader after the party's defeat in the 2019 general election, Phillips was suggested as a potential successor. The first poll of Labour members suggested she could secure 12% of first-preference votes in a leadership competition, putting her third behind Sir Keir Starmer (the Shadow Brexit Secretary) and Rebecca Long-Bailey (the Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy).[82] She announced her bid for the leadership on 3 January 2020 in Grimsby, a seat the Conservative party had gained from Labour in the election.[83] She was the third candidate to announce, following Emily Thornberry and Clive Lewis. Phillips acknowledged her performance in the first candidate hustings was poor, writing "I was awful because I was trying to hit a million different lines and messages in 40 seconds."[84] She dropped out of the leadership election campaign on 21 January, during the second stage of obtaining nominations from trade unions, affiliate bodies and local parties [85] and subsequently announced her support for Lisa Nandy.[86]

Rise to the frontbench

Phillips was appointed by Keir Starmer to serve as Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding, a position in the Shadow Home Office, on 9 April 2020.[87] It is the first time she has served on the frontbench.

Books

On 23 February 2017, her first book, Everywoman, One Woman's Truth About Speaking the Truth, was published by Penguin Books.[88][89] In May 2019, the book was optioned to be adapted as a television drama by RED Production Company.[90]

Her second book, Truth to Power: 7 Ways to Call Time on B.S., was published by Octopus on 3 October 2019.[91]

Personal life

Phillips is married to Tom Phillips; the couple have two sons.[11] Phillips employed her husband, previously a lift engineer, as constituency support manager until February 2019.[92][93][94]

Former professional footballer Kevin Phillips is her husband's cousin.[95]

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