Jess Phillips: Government minister role felt like being in a ‘straitjacket’

Jess Phillips admits she pulled sickie to dodge MPs' questions on Lord Mandelson

Former Home Office minister Jess Phillips has admitted to pulling a sickie to avoid questions in Parliament on Lord Peter Mandelson.The former safeguarding minister said she called in ill because she could not honestly claim the then-ambassador was "good at his job". Lord Mandelson was sacked as ambassador to the United States over his historic links to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, with Ms Phillips claiming at the time she had threatene…

Jess Phillips: Government minister role felt like being in a ‘straitjacket’

The Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley also said she thinks about leaving parliament ‘all the time’.

Jess Phillips admits she pulled sickie to dodge MPs’ questions on Lord Mandelson.

Interesting. An extract: “In the interview, Ms Phillips also ruled herself out from joining Andy Burnham’s administration, hinting she may quit politics all together.” One can but hope… —————————- If you’d like email notifications of our new blog pieces, please enter your email address in the box near the top of the right-hand column and click ‘Subscribe’. We shall shortly be posting this piece on our X channel. Our YouTube channel is here.