{"id":88627,"date":"2024-07-05T21:04:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T21:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/05\/labours-jess-phillips-reflects-on-abuse-in-absolutely-horrible-election-campaign\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T21:04:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T21:04:20","slug":"labours-jess-phillips-reflects-on-abuse-in-absolutely-horrible-election-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/05\/labours-jess-phillips-reflects-on-abuse-in-absolutely-horrible-election-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour’s Jess Phillips reflects on abuse in ‘absolutely horrible’ election campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jess Phillips has admitted she found the general election campaign “absolutely horrible” after enduring abuse – which culminated in being booed as she gave her acceptance speech. <\/p>\n

The Labour MP was narrowly re-elected for Birmingham Yardley on Friday morning with a majority of just 693 – after facing competition from a Workers Party candidate on a pro-Gaza ticket.<\/p>\n

Ms Phillips<\/a><\/strong> – who quit the Labour frontbench<\/a><\/strong> in November to back a Commons vote calling for an Israel-Hamas ceasefire – was booed and heckled as she addressed the crowd at the count.<\/p>\n

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Speaking to Sky News’ Beth Rigby on the latest Electoral Dysfunction podcast, out later this evening<\/a><\/strong>, Ms Phillips reflected on the past six weeks of campaigning and said: “It was an absolutely horrible campaign.”<\/p>\n

Labelling the abuse she’s received in recent weeks as “the most aggressive [and] most intimidatory”, Jess continued: “Not just [for] me but people in my constituency.<\/p>\n

“[There were] people being intimidated, people being told that God will judge them if they vote a certain way.”<\/p>\n

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Campaign activists in Birmingham had their car tyres slashed on Thursday, while a young woman handing out leaflets had “genocide” screamed in her face as someone filmed it, Ms Phillips added.<\/p>\n

“The reason they’re filming is to drive content, to incite more intimidation,” she said. “In my constituency, the humiliation was by men, to women.<\/p>\n

“And they wish to drive content… that’s what our politics has become – humiliation. Content-driven grift.”<\/p>\n

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Ms Phillips added that while her sons campaigned on the day voters headed to the polls, she did not feel comfortable taking them to the election count.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t want to take them because I just thought it might be really ugly for them to be there,” she said. “They were in good spirits and everything, but I had to keep them in the office with me.”<\/p>\n

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