Jess Phillips
Jess Phillips | |||||||
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Official portrait, 2024 | |||||||
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls | |||||||
| Assumed office 9 July 2024 | |||||||
| Prime Minister | Keir Starmer | ||||||
| Preceded by | Laura Farris | ||||||
| Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley | |||||||
| Assumed office 7 May 2015 | |||||||
| Preceded by | John Hemming | ||||||
| Majority | 693 (1.9%) | ||||||
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| Born | Jessica Rose Trainor 9 October 1981 Birmingham, West Midlands, England | ||||||
| Party | Labour | ||||||
| Spouse |
Tom Phillips (m. 2006) | ||||||
| Children | 2 | ||||||
| Education | King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls | ||||||
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| Website | jessphillips | ||||||
Jessica Rose Phillips (née Trainor; born 9 October 1981) is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Yardley since 2015. A member of the Labour Party, she has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls since July 2024.
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 said she would "find it incredibly difficult" to continue as an MP if Corbyn were re-elected as Labour leader. She supported Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace Corbyn in the 2016 leadership election. Phillips was a candidate for Labour leader in the 2020 leadership election, but withdrew early in the contest.