{"id":39345,"date":"2026-05-18T01:32:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/39345\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T01:32:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:32:03","slug":"jess-phillips-ripped-to-shreds-on-sunday-with-laura-kuenssberg-incoherent-mess-tv-radio-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/39345\/","title":{"rendered":"Jess Phillips ripped to shreds on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg: ‘Incoherent mess’ | TV & Radio | Showbiz & TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Labour minister Jess Phillips was torn to shreds during an appearance on BBC<\/a> politics show Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg<\/a> as she was branded an \u201cincoherent mess\u201d. In a car crash segment, Phillips admitted that many people had misunderstood her resignation letter, which she handed to prime minister Keir Starmer last week.<\/p>\n

On the programme, Phillips told Kuenssberg: \u201cI was expecting to hear something on Monday that said, \u2018I get it, I get what\u2019s just happened in the local election and I\u2019m going to be big and bold\u2019, but instead what I heard was, \u2018We won\u2019t just have incremental change\u2019, and it just didn\u2019t sound true to me or my experiences. I thought, look, if I have to push for bold change, then resigning is one way that I would do that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think people understand exactly what I am talking about, exactly, in my resignation letter. What I am talking about is stopping 91% of child sexual abuse online. The ability for children to take the naked images of themselves and do livestreaming of their own sexual abuses is something that\u2026 I had to try and stop.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is one where the technology literally exists to be able to stop that child abuse from happening.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy experience of trying to push that through has been the most frustrating, and the level of timidity, the level of, \u2018We won\u2019t say we\u2019ll legislate, we\u2019ll say that we\u2019ll work with the tech companies\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the Violence Against Women and Girls strategy that came out in December, there was about a week-long argument about what words would be written into that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later on the programme<\/a>, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch wasn\u2019t impressed with Phillips\u2019 speech, as she laid into her: \u201cThe Labour Party is the problem. It\u2019s not Keir Starmer<\/a> or Andy Burnham<\/a> or Wes Streeting alone. It is all of them.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust listen to Jess Phillips \u2013 that was an incoherent mess, that\u2019s one of the former ministers, that\u2019s somebody who is going to be picking the next Labour leader, she can\u2019t articulate a brief which she has held for nearly two years.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is talking about Wes Streeting wanting to be more popular, maybe have an election \u2013 this is a game to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Phillips also admitted she wants to see a leadership contest, telling Kuenssberg: \u201cI think it\u2019d be better if we had a contest, personally. Not a really long one though \u2013 my gosh, they can be quite tedious. Yes, there has to be a contest.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Labour minister Jess Phillips was torn to shreds during an appearance on BBC politics show Sunday with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7786,146,20105,20104,16292,94,186,19956,12249,12306,5,6],"class_list":["post-39345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","tag-andy-burnham","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-bias","tag-bbc-politics","tag-jess-phillips","tag-keir-starmer","tag-kemi-badenoch","tag-labour-leadership-contest","tag-laura-kuenssberg","tag-sunday-with-laura-kuenssberg","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116593003238407310","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}