In the past few minutes, Jess Phillips has confirmed that she is pulling out of the Labour leadership race, saying the party needs a candidate who can unite people across its movement. In a video message, she said: ‘I have to be honest with myself, as I said I always would be throughout this campaign, that at this time that person isn’t me. In order to win the country, we need to find a candidate in this race who can do all that and then take that message out to the country of hope and change for things to be better.’
Phillips appeared to have accepted that she wasn’t going to get through to the ballot paper at the weekend when she penned a piece for the Guardian describing her performance at the party’s first hustings as ‘awful’, and vowed to be more true to herself.
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