Here, she talks about politicians being human and her tendency to put her foot in her mouth, but it doesn’t always feel as guileless as that. The unacceptable abuse is done by losers from their mother's basements to make the victims feel superior, but women who use the refuge's phone to do a drug deal are people who need help. I can only assume they read this book with the express intention of trashing it, which is fairly pointless. She does point out that as women we are not encouraged to flaunt our successes and maybe that is why I find it so jarring. A lot of respect for Jess reading this, she is so clearly someone who genuinely cares about others and wants to see the world become a better, fairer and more equal place.

The only women who treat their relationships as a hobby are vulnerable, unlike the men, who presumably have no context of their own.

An endorsement of the success of all female short lists and a critique of Labour party organisation that despite having some of the best women parliamentarians Labour have never had a female leader, while the conservatives with fewer women MPs have had two women Prime Ministers. I'm sure the book will annoy some, especially the noisy legion of women-haters who hurl abuse at her on the internet, and some of her parliamentary colleagues.

Phillips cares a great deal about physical and sexual abuse, about the wage gap and career development, about online bullying and so on - but she just doesn't seem to have noticed that all of these issues disproportionately affect women who also belong to other marginalised groups. The Labour MP for Hall Green (the neighbouring constituency to mine; I do wish I lived a few streets over! Phillips clearly explains preconceived ideas about domestic violence and why women don’t leave these relationships. She also deals with her own family issues and her own failings honestly, and I think her explanation that having these things in your background is not something that should make you keep out of politics is going to be helpful to people. Other chapters are darker, detailing Jess' time working for women's aid, stories of abuse and domestic violence.there were so many funny and wise things on each page that whittling them down into a review seemed impossible. Launched in partnership with The National Lottery, it aims to promote dialogue and support Parliamentarians working to nurture a more connected society. She says that, According to the Flesch-Kincaid test (grading of readability) her parliament speeches are at a level that would be understood by the average 16-17-year-old. She also asserts that being the 'best woman for the job' is a nonsensical comment because no-one says that Jessica Ennis won 'girlie gold', a terrible analogy as women's sporting events only exist because the best women cannot compete with the best men.