Jess Phillips: ‘People rely on someone they love to die to afford a place to live’

Jess Phillips is the Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, Birmingham.

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She knows their stories, speaks their language and is right at home with her constituents.

Phillips grew up in a Labour household her dad was a teacher, her mum was an NHS administrator.

She insisted on going to grammar school, against her parents’ principles.

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