We'll disappoint voters and mess up, admits Phillips
The Independent|August 12, 2024
Labour frontbenchers are “going to mess up” and “disappoint” voters, a Labour minister has said.
KATE DEVLIN
We'll disappoint voters and mess up, admits Phillips

But Jess Phillips, the minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls, said that overall, her party would have a “more honest approach” than the Conservatives.

Of the last Tory government, she said: “It feels like politicians have been spitting in our face and telling us it is raining, which is a funnier way of saying ‘gaslighting you.’” The Birmingham Yardley MP added: “They will be like, ‘we’re spending more on the NHS than ever before’ and then you spent 19 hours and leave the accident and emergency unit not having any treatment.”

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