Labour leadership: Jess Phillips vows to stop acting ‘statesmanlike’
Outspoken candidate concedes she ‘stopped being real’ in Saturday hustings
The Labour leadership contender Jess Phillips has pledged to stop trying to appear prime ministerial as she battles to secure a place on the ballot paper after what she described as an “awful” first hustings in Liverpool on Saturday.
Writing for the Guardian, Phillips acknowledges that it looks highly unlikely anyone but the two frontrunners, Keir Starmer and Rebecca Long-Bailey, would win the race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn.