Birmingham Yardley.

As Minister for Safeguarding, Jess Phillips has been the public face of new legislation targeting sex-based harassment in public places, drawing sustained positive coverage through early 2026. She fronted a national campaign with sports figures against violence against women and girls, and has been directly credited with driving the policy forward -- a rare case of a backbench-turned-minister whose ministerial work is the dominant story. The negative counterweight is a critical profile in The Critic from April 2025, which pointed to her narrow 2024 re-election margin of under 700 votes and questioned her record on child sexual abuse inquiries.

Phillips votes a straight Labour line -- 100% party alignment with no rebel votes -- but her voting profile reveals some texture. She scores notably higher than the average Labour MP on armed forces welfare (+31 percentage points above party average) and consistently backs overriding Lords amendments. Her participation rate of 60% is below the Commons average, though ministerial duties routinely reduce floor attendance. Crime and social care dominate her 509 speech contributions across 82 debates, consistent with her ministerial brief. She scores low on pro-business, civil liberties, and parliamentary scrutiny measures, though these largely reflect government-line voting rather than personal deviation.

The ministerial role shapes almost everything here: her news coverage, her speech topics, and her voting pattern all flow from the safeguarding brief rather than backbench independence. No committee memberships are listed, again typical for serving ministers. Her constituency profile -- Birmingham Yardley, a marginal seat -- gives local salience to her focus on crime and violence against women. Data on local sentiment is mixed, with local government coverage averaging slightly negative over the past 90 days.