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'Now is not the time to play it safe': Jess Phillips enters the race to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour party leader

Jess Phillips enters the race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Labour party leader.

She said the party must be more honest with voters and regain their trust — or it will be in "big trouble."Visit Business Insider's homepage for more storiesJess Phillips has entered the race to replace Jeremy Corbyn as the next leader of the Labour party, insisting that the bruised opposition party must elect a leader "who gets it" in order to defeat Boris Johnson.

"I travelled around the country during the general election and what I was hearing from our amazing activists was that people don't trust us anymore. And that's what I was hearing from voters. She warned her party "now is not the time to play it safe" and that a "more of the same" approach will fail to regain the trust of working-class voters who ditched Labour in droves at the election on December 12.Phillips said: "There needs to be honesty in this leadership race. More important than that, there needs to be honesty with the voters who have turned away from Labour since 2005.

Despite having never held a shadow ministerial position, Phillips is a high-profile MP whose plain-speaking style and campaigning on issues like schools cuts has earned her admirers and a sizable social media following.

 

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