Jessica Rose Phillips (née Trainor; born 9 October 1981) is a British Labour Party politician. She has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Yardley since the 2015 general election. She has served in Keir Starmer’s Opposition frontbench as Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding since 2020.
Phillips was appointed as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Lucy Powell, the Shadow Education Secretary, in 2015. A vocal critic of the former Leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn, Phillips resigned as a PPS in protest over Corbyn's leadership and threatened to resign from the Labour Party and sit as an independent MP if Corbyn was re-elected as Labour Leader. She supported Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace Corbyn in the 2016 leadership election and did not complete her pledge to resign as a Labour MP. Phillips was a candidate for Labour Leader in the 2020 leadership election but withdrew from the later stages of the contest due to a lack of support.
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