‘Labour is our only hope’: Jess Phillips calls on party to stay united
In a week of party strife, the Yardley candidate defends ‘this brilliant vehicle for social change’
Jess Phillips today pleads with fellow Labour MPs, activists and supporters to stick with the party and not follow Tom Watson out of politics, arguing that it is “the greatest vehicle for positive, hopeful change” that this country has ever created.
After a week in which both the Tories and Labour have suffered campaign setbacks and controversies ahead of the 12 December general election, Phillips writes in the Observer that quitting Labour now would mean abandoning the best and only vehicle for fighting division and injustice at a crucial moment.