News about Jess Phillips

QUENTIN LETTS: When political ­conferences finish it is sometimes said the cheers and applause resound through the ether long after the last delegate has left the hall. After this week's Labour Party conference in Liverpool, all that echoes through my sore bean is a low, depressing drone. Is it a punctured bagpipe, a pregnant ewe, some Merseyside fog horn or an air-block in the conference-season hotel plumbing? No, it is the Left-wing voice. 'Fourteen years of Tory misrule… ­£22 ­billion black hole… politics of service… my father was a toolmaker.' Insistent, gloomy, it makes everything sound worse than it is. Nagging. Puts you just on edge. If you have ever heard the mew of buzzards circling overhead, you will know the sensation.

SARAH VINE: The new Me & Em ­catalogue (much favoured by female members of Labour 's Cabinet) plopped on to my doormat yesterday. Lovely stuff, as always. I was particularly taken by a stylish lace silk blouse in this season's must-have colourway, a deep plum. But at £295 I fear I may have to give it a miss. Zara will no doubt have an equivalent for a fraction of that price - and sadly I have no obliging Lord Alli waiting in the wings with an open chequebook. Of all the scandals that might have dogged the Prime Minister during his first few weeks of office, who would have thought it would be this? That a man whose entire political persona seems to have been constructed around a monkish, holier-than-thou hair-shirtery would end up making a fool of himself over… well, shirts?

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Jess Phillips (left) insisted Keir Starmer (right at an Arsenal match last month) had 'lived entirely by the rules' that apply to MPs as she was quizzed about the freebies furore during a round of interviews. But amid signs of Labour anxiety about the public will view the gifts after the winter fuel was axed and with threats of tax hikes, the Home Office minister acknowledged that 'you have to consider how people in the country feel about things' . Asked whether she would accept space in a corporate box for football matches, as Sir Keir has done, she replied: 'I don't like the Arsenal.' The premier last night repeated that he had done nothing wrong - and claimed he was in fact saving taxpayers money, because he would need more security in the stands. However, Baroness Harman (inset) has become the first senior party figure to publicly criticise Sir Keir for accepting more than £100,000 worth of gifts and hospitality in the past five years.

The move comes more than a a year since MPs voted to bring in legislation seeking to ensure women do not face harassment outside clinics. Delays on implementation under the previous Conservative government centred around the issue of silent prayer. Campaigners supporting the safe access zones had raised concerns that the law would be watered down in practice if silent prayer was not also banned. Anti-abortion groups argued that doing so would threaten their rights to freedom of expression and religious belief.

Have you ever wondered how to jump the queue in an overrun NHS ­Accident and Emergency department? The answer has been provided by the Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, Jess Phillips. As my colleague Richard Eden revealed last week, at an event titled An Evening With Jess Phillips, the Home Office minister told her audience at a London theatre that, when she had recently sought treatment for breathing difficulties at an overcrowded ­Birmingham hospital, she managed to get to the front of the queue 'because of who I am. 'Also, the doctor who saw me was a Palestinian, as it turns out. Almost all the doctors in Birmingham seem to be.'

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: The moniker 'Two-Tier Keir' already trips off many tongues. But will its usage in everyday speech now become irreversible? I ask because of a remarkable disclosure by one of Sir Keir Starmer's government ministers - Jess Phillips, loquacious Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley. Speaking at an event unambiguously billed as An Evening With Jess Phillips, held at Kiln Theatre in North London, Phillips recounted an episode from her personal medical history which suggests that it may not just be policing which could be guided by a 'two-tier' approach but also, perhaps, treatment dispensed by the National Health Service. Describing a distressing episode when she was having trouble breathing - 'my lips had gone blue and I couldn't breathe,' she recalled - Phillips, 42, explained that she'd sought urgent treatment at A&E in a Birmingham hospital.

Emma Ambler (pictured inset) has spent hours planning her niece's birthday party. She's ordered a cake from the local bakery, picked out the right number of candles to light - seven - and bought balloons. But little Lexi won't excitedly blow out her candles, nor will her older sister Ava watch her unwrap presents. As she has for the past three years, Emma has planned a party for a family which no longer exists. In March 2020, the two sisters, Ava, four, and Lexi, two, (pictured top right) were gunned down by their father Rob Needham, 42, (left) along with their mother, Emma's twin sister Kelly Fitzgibbons, 40 (left and below right).

Community resolutions are generally reserved for low-level crimes and do not constitute a criminal record. Offenders are required to apologise to the victim, repair any damage that has been caused and offer some form of compensation to the victim. But according to The Telegraph , resolutions - which are issued at the discretion of individual officers - have increased by 40 per cent since 2019. Analysis of Ministry of Justice data revealed resolutions are now twice as likely as a criminal charge.

Police will be asked to use counter-terror-style data analysis and tactics, including surveillance operations, to bring offenders of domestic violence in the UK to justice under measures introduced by Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips (left). Labour hopes it will stop repeat offenders evading justice as a result of failings in the criminal justice system. The party has previously warned that repeat offenders of violence against women and girls get away with their crimes as the response is focused on individual incidents and not a pattern of behaviour. Sir Keir Starmer is said to be haunted by the story of Jane Clough (right), a 26-year-old nurse who was stabbed to death by her former partner Jonathan Vass while on bail accused of raping her.

Ms Phillips also said she was not expecting to be offered a frontbench job, having been sacked last November for defying party whips to vote for a ceasefire in Gaza. Ms Phillips, the MP for Birmingham Yardley, is known for her frank approach which has led to some controversial comments. Last week she was accused of 'making excuses' for the behaviour of masked men who threatened journalists in Birmingham. And the Labour veteran has once again potentially landed in hot water by undermining the competency of her ministerial colleagues.

Specialist police teams are trawling through social media posts to target 'hate influencers' who incited the far-right riots seen on British streets. Regional organised crime units are working with the specialist officers to investigate hundreds of posts suspected of 'spreading hate and inciting violence'. Far-right mobs across the UK carried out a series of riots in the wake of the Southport knife attack after false rumours were spread on social media blaming a Muslim migrant for the attack. A range of social media sites are being reviewed by officers from the serious and organised crime team, counter-terror police and other national agencies. Officers would work together to build a 'clear intelligence picture' of those believed to be organising and influencing violence both online and in the real world, the National Police Chiefs' Council said. Offenders will then be identified, arrested and charged after content is assessed by a senior investigator to determine whether it meets the criminal threshold.

Jess Phillips has now waded into the row and said although she had previously been 'massively addicted to Twitter ', referencing the former name of X, she had removed the app from her phone after Mr Musk took over the company. Speaking at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the government minister said of the social media platform: 'Fundamentally for me now I think that I am sort of done with it, I don't wish to fish in that particular pond any more.' She told the audience: 'I used to be massively addicted to Twitter, I have got a very addictive personality, I was massively addicted to it.' But she added: 'The only power we now have over what is becoming a bit despotic is that we opt out of it, you vote with your feet in this instance rather than pen and paper.'

Two images of Britain spring to mind this week. The first, Emma ­Finucane, Team GB cycling gold medallist at the Paris Olympics, great-niece of Brendan 'Paddy' Finucane, the World War II fighter pilot and Spitfire ace, the youngest-ever wing commander in the RAF and a national icon for his ­heroics in the Battle of Britain. What a legacy, what an achievement, what a proud moment for our country. The other, an image of hate and ­bigotry, a preening thug with his features ­concealed by a Union Jack mask. This country's standard, used to hide the face of a coward: it doesn't get more shameful than that.

Large groups, some sporting Palestinian flags, had gathered in the Bordesley Green area on Monday after false rumours of a far-right rally. Sky News journalist Becky Johnson had to abruptly end a live report as men in balaclavas approached, disrupting the broadcast and throwing gun signs. One masked attendee attempted to slash the tyre on her crew's van. But Ms Phillips, the minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls, argued the crowd was there 'because it has been spread that racists were coming to attack them'.

Hundreds of Muslims gathered near a mosque in Birmingham after rumours of a far-right gathering spread online. Some of those who had travelled to the area were filmed attacking a pub, the Clumsy Swan. Meanwhile, police in Plymouth made arrests as they sought to separate two groups of protesters - with a commanding officer describing the policing efforts needed as 'off the scale' with 150 officers deployed in the city centre. Frightened by the despairing scenes of violence and looting in other UK cities in recent days, many businesses have chosen to pull down the shutters ahead of time - while police have been mobilised in the town centre.

Journalist and author Elizabeth Day (left), the host of chart-topping podcast 'How to Fail', has launched a knew 'podclass' called 'How to write a book' (right). While Elizabeth, whose fifth novel 'Magpie' also won acclaim, will contribute to the podclass, its main presenters will be award-winning author Sara Collins, literary agent Nelle Andrew and publisher Sharmaine Lovegrove.

After re-winning her seat in Birmingham Yardley, the Labour MP declared the campaign had been 'pretty gruesome' and that it was 'the worst election I have ever stood in' - only to be drowned out by boos and chants of 'Free Palestine '. It sparked a furious response from Ms Phillips, who yelled back: 'I understand that a strong woman standing up to you is met with such reticence' before pointing at them and saying: 'Can you throw them out?' The politician, who narrowly clung onto her seat beating an independent by just 693, said one of her volunteers had been 'screamed at by a much older man' while campaigning and had her tyres slashed.

The signs of a powerful and coordinated sectarian campaign in this election were palpable on the morning of the vote itself. Outside polling stations in London 's Tower Hamlets, South Tottenham and Ilford, Palestinian flags were fluttering as a sharp reminder to the electorate which way to vote. The General Election of 2024 will go down in history as the one in which Islamist religious politics gained a firm foothold in our democracy. In Birmingham Yardley - a constituency where at least one in five residents is Muslim - Labour's MP Jess Phillips has told of facing vile abuse, despite having voted in favour of a Gaza 'ceasefire' in the Commons and after opposing 'Islamophobia' all her political life.

The Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley suffered jeers and chants of 'Free Palestine ' by pro-Palestinian supporters after she beat independent candidate Jody McIntyre by just 693 votes. She looked furious and yelled back: ' I understand that a strong woman standing up to you is met with such reticence' before asking for the mob to be thrown out, pointing at them and saying: 'Can you throw them out?' Jess later stayed defiant during an interview with LBC as she was asked if the group should have been removed earlier to avoid any kind of disruption and 'vitriol'. 'No, I wanted them to hear what I had to say,' she said before bursting out into laughter.

The Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley suffered jeers by pro-Palestinian supporters after she beat an independent by just 693. She looked furious and yelled back: ' I understand that a strong woman standing up to you is met with such reticence' before asking for the mob to be thrown out, pointing at them and saying: 'Can you throw them out?' Jess said that a young woman delivering leaflets for her yesterday was filmed by her rivals 'and screamed at by a much older man' and then her tyres slashed. She also said she declined the help of the family of murdered MP Jo Cox because of the violence in her area. She added: 'I didn't bring my children here tonight, because I knew this would happen and they deserve better'.

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Jess Phillips asked the PM, Chief Whip Simon Hart and Tory Chairman Richard Holden why he remained on the Government payroll. She revealed that the alleged victim at the centre of the case was considering taking the complaint to the police. The minister - who the Mail has chosen not to name - is accused of inappropriately touching the woman who is half his age in December last year. The case is believed to be under investigation by the Independent Complaints and Grievances Service, which is likely to file a report later this year.

Elizabeth Day (pictured, left) has revealed politicians won't be guests on her award-winning podcast How to Fail because they don't want to be associated with the word 'fail'. The 45-year-old novelist told an audience at the Hay Literature Festival: 'There are some politicians who, I won't name names, won't come on the podcast because it has the word "fail" in the title and they don't want to be seized upon. 'So if I really thought about it I might not have branded it that way. 'But I'm not fetishising the pursuit of failure. I'm simply saying that failure is something that happens to us all and it connects us which is really liberating.' Politicians who have braved the podcast have discussed their failures in Whitehall, their mental health problems and personal relationships.