Jess Phillips

I under no circumstances want to be seen as a victim. I have worked with victims of sexual violence and I don't have a candle to hold to the experiences of those victims.

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

Every time I speak out about anything feminist I will be shot down by people calling me fat, calling me stupid. And it's all because I am speaking from a feminist perspective.

Boris Johnson needs to be challenged, with passion, heart and precision.

We have got to be brave and bold and bring people with us, not try and look all ways. Trying to please everyone usually means we have pleased no one.

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.

The greatest lie that was ever told is that I'm some sort of rightwinger.

I refuse to believe this rhetoric that the Labour party can't get under one big umbrella with a common enemy - sometimes a common enemy is an absolutely delightful unifier.

I'm the kind of leader who would try to have honest and difficult conversations.

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

I hate when people send me LinkedIn requests.

I loathe and detest people who pretend they don't care what people think about them as if that is a virtue, when it is simply rude.

I'm stunned at the amount of young women who get in touch with me every single day, trying to become somebody like me. As a teenager, I would never have done that. And I was someone who was interested in politics. But I wouldn't have emailed the local MP.

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.

I wanted to be an MP who was normal. I believe in politics, I'm a proud parliamentarian, and I want people to want parliamentarians again.

I enjoy taking people on on Twitter, because often I'm cleverer and funnier.

Growing up with my father was like growing up with Jeremy Corbyn. He still hasn't rejoined the party; it's not left wing enough for him.

I am utterly ambitious. I'm ambitious for the sake of being so, too.

One of the things I want to achieve in the potentially short time I'm in Westminster is to stop people thinking we're all the same. Because while they believe that, the establishment stays in the same people's hands.

I am manic and that leads me to behave badly at times.