Jess Phillips realises folly of speaking truth to out-of-power | John Crace

MP made schoolgirl error of seeking to get Labour elected rather than preserving its ideological purity Jess Phillips's USP has always been her bluntness. The Labour MP might not always be that strong on policy but you can generally rely on her to tell the truth. To say what she really thinks. So when she crashed and burned at the first Labour leadership hustings in Liverpool last weekend, Phillips was the first to admit it. She had tried too hard to broaden her appeal to all party members, she ...