When Jess Phillips first entered parliament in 2015, she quickly made the headlines after she told Diane Abbott to ‘f— off’ when they had a disagreement over whether Jeremy Corbyn had appointed enough women to his shadow cabinet. Since then, Phillips is frequently in the news for speaking up on the political issues she cares about – recently going viral for a speech on olives in which she lambasted the government for earnings caps on immigrants.
I’m delighted to have Phillips as a guest on The Spectator‘s Women With Balls podcast. When we spoke last month, we discussed what it’s like to go viral, growing up in a political family and her perspective on class in Westminster.
The pros and cons of growing up in a political family with a father to the ‘left of Jeremy Corbyn’:
‘It’s a bit like being religious I suppose.
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