Jess Phillips
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Official portrait, 2019 | |||||||||||||||
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department | |||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 9 July 2024 | |||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Keir Starmer | ||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Andrew Sharpe, Baron Sharpe of Epsom | ||||||||||||||
| Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley | |||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 7 May 2015 | |||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | John Hemming | ||||||||||||||
| Majority | 693 (1.9%) | ||||||||||||||
Jessica Rose Phillips (née Trainor; born 9 October 1981) is a British Labour Party politician. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Yardley since the 2015 general election.[1] In January 2020, Phillips briefly ran for Leader of the Labour Party in the 2020 leadership election.[2][3] Phillips was appointed by Keir Starmer to serve as Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding, a position in the Shadow Home Office, on 9 April 2020.[4] She resigned from her position following a vote on a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war on 15 November 2023.[5] Jess Phillips MediaReferences
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