The gruelling campaign is over. Now we have a country to sort
Also this week: Nigel Farage to be bogged down by bins and neighbour disputes, and the Euros bringing about familial fallouts.
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Jess Phillips
Jess Phillips has been the Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley since 2015, and shadow minister for domestic violence and safeguarding since 2020. She is the author of Everywoman, One Woman's Truth About Speaking the Truth, and Truth to Power: 7 Ways to Call Time on B.S..
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Jess Phillips’ Diary: Saying goodbye to my mother-in-law, Angela Rayner’s right to cross her legs, and non-dom condoms
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Jess Phillips’ Diary: Waving goodbye to my thirties, and why the government cannot keep women safe
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Jess Phillips’s Diary: What Batley and Spen means for Labour, Euros fever and how Gavin Williamson failed my kids
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Jess Phillips’s Diary: My mother died nine years ago but she still got a shielding letter from the government
I have been able to take a walk with some of my girlfriends, which has been a precious relief.
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In praise of history’s difficult women
The story of the fight for gender quality is littered with unlikeable feminists. But do we need to like…
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Jess Phillips’s Diary: Scorched earth in parliament, a hotline to Macron – and Phoebe Waller-Bridge for PM
I consider myself to be a pretty good storyteller. I can normally spin long drawn-out days in the Commons…
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Jess Phillips’s Diary: Online abuse, a triumph for domestic violence victims and eating Quavers in the bath
It takes an awful lot of work to be abused. After the week I have had, being subject again…
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Jess Phillips’s Diary: Incredible hulks, the Brexit hellscape and why conference season is a waste of time
This year, more than ever, it seems an indulgence too far for legislators to have time off to drink…
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