Gill will work in the Department of Health and Social Care as a parliamentary under-secretary.

Jess Phillips has revealed she was told not to apply for a job because she was pregnant. Speaking to The Independent for International Women’s Day (IWD), the Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley opened up about her experiences of being discriminated against ...

“Not to put too fine a point on it, by most people’s standards I am nails.” So warns Jess Phillips in her fourth book, Let’s Be Honest. The only thing the MP for Birmingham Yardley loves more than “telling it like it is”, after all, is telling ...

A Home Office minister has been accused of excusing the behaviour of masked activists who forced a live Sky News broadcast off air. Jess Phillips, the safeguarding minister and Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, was criticised for “justifying” the ...

Labour MP Jess Phillips called on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to remove former Prime Minister Liz Truss as a Conservative general election candidate ahead of a scheduled interview on the Lotus Eaters web series. Truss is set to be interviewed by podcast ...

Labour leadership candidate Jess Phillips has said she felt “quite tempted” to quit the party over its handling of allegations of anti-Semitism. The Birmingham Yardley MP said she “wobbled the most” when she saw a BBC Panorama investigation which ...

Zubir Ahmed follows Jess Phillips and two other ministers in quitting government. Meanwhile more than 100 Labour MPs are understood to have signed a statement backing the PM.

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