"I have seen again and again how women's lives are considered a niche issue rather than the main event. If there are no powerful women in the room, it will continue to happen. I can already hear the rebuttal that Liz Truss was a woman and she was dreadful, but that argument only holds if you think that Liz Truss is the embodiment of all women and her failure belongs to us all. Liz Truss didn't fail because she was a woman, she failed because she was a right-wing ideologue who was unfit for the job. I can see plenty of those left around the cabinet table so they can't be too fussed about that."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Members of the Parliament of the United KingdomPeople from BirminghamLabour Party (UK) politiciansFeminists from EnglandWomen politicians in the United Kingdom
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
"Jess Phillips: Where are all the senior women in Rishi Sunak’s cabinet?", The Independent (27 October 2022).
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jess_Phillips
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Jess Phillips
Jessica Rose Phillips (née Trainor; born 9 October 1981) is a British politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Yardley since 2015. A member of the Labour Party, she was Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding in Keir Starmer's Opposition frontbench from 2020 to 2023, when she resigned over a vote on the Gaza conflict. In July 2024, following the 2024 general election, she was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Home Office with her pre
23 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Jess Phillips →
Related Quotes
"I would do anything that I felt was going to make the Labour party win the general election because if I don't have t…"
"I am, however, still dubious about the need for an international men's day in and of itself. For me it is up there wi…"
"One of the things I want to achieve in the potentially short time I'm in Westminster is to stop people thinking we're…"
"Assange has, for seven years, evaded accusations of sexual violence in Sweden."
"The trouble is that many of those who like what Assange did with WikiLeaks are willing to look the other way about th…"
"All the talk about rebuilding the economy post-pandemic, post-Brexit, post-austerity, is always about diggers [...] I…"
"[Referring to domestic violence.] It took until the third [statement during the first lockdown] for the prime ministe…"
"We punish mothers for falling prey, rather than see how we can help them be the best moms that they can be and suppor…"
"Reading out the list of names of women killed by men compiled by the femicide census as I do every year on Internatio…"
"I roundly told her to fuck off .... She fucked off. People said to me they had always wanted to say that to her, and …"