Jess Phillips

“I do find it funny, actually, why I'm not more of a Corbyn fan. I am a classic Corbyn fan, really. Not so much on the foreign policy, but I'm leftwing, pro-immigration, pro-welfare spending, there's very little that we wouldn't agree on.”

“My childhood dream was to be prime minister.”

“I don't think Jeremy Corbyn hates women - I don't think Jeremy hates anyone. Spend even one minute with him and you would want to take him down to the pub and sink a pint of mild with the man. However, in the hard left of British politics lurks a gruesome misogyny.”

“All my life I've been interested in politics. I went on the miners march when I was six months old. My parents are really political.”

“I hate when people send me LinkedIn requests.”

“I was born in Birmingham and raised in Birmingham.”

“To liberate women and end violence is to break down the culture of power imbalance.”

“Ah, well, I do think the generation that came after me has changed. I think there is a growing sense that young women should like themselves a bit more.”

“My mum was always extremely political. I have fond memories of making signs as a child for the nuclear disarmament protests at Greenham Common, or helping her bake cakes for them.”

“I am a party worker ant - always have been, always will be.”

“I would do whatever I could to make Jeremy Corbyn more electable, but you've got to give me something to work with, mate.”

“If the internet has taught me anything it is that people are either heroes or they belong in the bin.”

“Fear and hatred can be the things that drive you. I don't always think of fear as a bad thing, it gives you fight-or-flight.”

“If a friend got a big promotion, I would outwardly congratulate them, but inside I would painfully compare myself with them and think that their success was a reflection on my failings.”

“In every single place I have campaigned in and every single place I have lived, people want some fairly basic things. They want to believe that they are safe, they want to know that their children will be educated and that if they are ill, they will be made better.”

“We've all got to discover the courage to ask the difficult questions about the future of our party and the future of the working-class communities who need a Labour government.”

“The trouble for lots of politicians is they worry so much about everybody liking every single thing that they do.”

“There's something wrong with the Labour party. There's something wrong with the fact that women never rise to the top.”

“The Labour party is not perfect but I have seen in my own life how it is the greatest vehicle for positive hopeful social change.”

“The NHS was hard to deliver, so was the minimum wage. It's time now - we need to have a proper conversation about how much is the individual cost, how much is the burden that we're all going to share together, and how much are we going to put on older adults now versus a future system like national insurance.”