The Birmingham Yardley MP has been appointed to the Home Office team, working under Home Secretary Yvette Cooper. She previously held a shadow role for domestic violence and safeguarding but stood down last year.
Jess Phillips has been appointed to the Labour government as a minister, focusing on tackling violence against women and girls and domestic violence. The Labour MP has been a vocal campaigner on the subject, and has become known for reading out a list of all the women killed by men in the UK every year on International Women's Day in parliament.
Her new role will have a similar portfolio to what she did before. Ms Phillips narrowly returned to the Commons in last week's general election - with her majority slashed from 10,659 to 693. Her Birmingham Yardley seat saw Jody McIntyre come in second, with Mr McIntyre representing George Galloway's Workers Party of Britain. Following her election, Ms Phillips was heckled while giving her acceptance speech.
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