After winning her seat by less than 700 votes, Jess Philips said there was no way she could bring her children to the count
Jess Phillips may have won back her seat of Birmingham Yardley but she spent election day needing to make several calls to the local police over alleged aggression to her by political opponents.
Jess Phillips is a prominent Labour backbencher, who regularly uses International Women’s Day debates to read out loud the name of every single woman who’s been killed in the past year by male violence, or, where the case is still ongoing, the suspect is a man. A former refuge worker, she resignedfrom Keir Starmer’s cabinet in November 2023 after opposing his instructions to not vote on a ceasefire in Gaza, which has been under Israeli fire since the October 7th Hamas-led attacks on Israel.
This, and her re-election - with just 693 votes, mind - hasn’t been enough for some people at the count, who decided to jeer her as she curtseyed, celebrating - in a small way - her narrow win over McIntyre. She was meant to be joined by her old friend Jo Cox’s family on the campaign trail but, she added, “there was absolutely no way I could have allowed for them to see what was aggressive, and violence in our democracy.” She also said she couldn’t bring her children to the count because she knew the abuse would come their way, but had hope that a Labour government would help clean up politics.
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