Jess Phillips (politician)
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Jess Phillips MP |
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Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley |
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Assumed office 7 May 2015 |
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| Preceded by | John Hemming |
| Majority | 6,595 (16.0%) |
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Jessica Rose Trainor 9 October 1981 |
| Political party | Labour |
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| Website | jessphillips |
Jessica Rose Phillips (born 9 October 1981) is a British Labour Party politician who became the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Birmingham Yardley at the 2015 general election.
The youngest of four children, Phillips is the daughter of Stewart Trainor, a "bearded (English) teacher", and Jean Trainor, who was Deputy Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation and Chair of South Birmingham Mental Health Trust. They were politically active: "Growing up with my father was like growing up with Jeremy Corbyn" she told Rachel Cooke of The Observer in March 2016. Her childhood ambition was to become Prime Minister.
Phillips studied Economic and Social History/Social Policy at the University of Leeds between 2000 and 2003. She marched against the Iraq War, as did her parents. Between 2011 and 2013, she studied for a postgraduate diploma in Public Sector Management at the University of Birmingham.
From 2010, Phillips worked for Women’s Aid. She had a post as a business development manager at the domestic sexual abuse charity, responsible for refuges from sexual abuse in Sandwell in the West Midlands. Before her work for the charity, she worked for Healthlinks Event Management Services Limited.
Phillips left the Labour Party during the years of Tony Blair's leadership, rejoining after the 2010 general election. Her period at Women's Aid made Phillips "utterly pragmatic… I learned that my principles don’t matter as much as [people's] lives.” In the 2012 local elections, she was elected as a Labour councillor for Longbridge ward, taking the seat from the Conservatives. She was then appointed as the victims champion at Birmingham City Council, lobbying police and criminal justice organisations on behalf of victims. She also served on the West Midlands Police and Crime Panel.
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