I thought I could be a politician and a human being. I was wrong – video
Jess Phillips got into politics with a plan to show the public MPs were not ‘all the same’. But, she says, she now realises that showing your personality as a politician is a mistake. Fear of a public backlash is what turns MPs into the ‘line driven robots’ we find so frustrating, she argues, so we should no longer complain about them
Read Jess Phillips’ interview with Rachel Cooke in The Observer Magazine on Sunday
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