My name is Jess Phillips and I’m standing to be leader of the Labor Party – Mirror Online, Mirror.co.uk

We need someone strong to take on Boris Johnson(Image: Prime Minister’s Press Office / PA)**********************

For people like me, in places like Birmingham where I come from, our lives were made better through tax credits and Sure Start centers.

Under the Tories, that changed.

My work running women’s refuges, rape crisis centers and as a community activist means that I know what it’s like for the most vulnerable in our society, like the ones I met at a foodbank yesterday.

Boris Johnson doesn’t have a clue about the lives of people like you and me.

He doesn’t know what it’s like to be worried about getting to the end of the month with no money in the bank, caring for an elderly relative whilst juggling work, or worrying about a teenage child being out and not being able to get home because the bus service is rubbish.

I will be a voice for people like you . Because that’s been my life too.

We suffered a terrible defeat at the election in December.

We can’t continue like nothing has changed.

We need a different leader and a different team who can stick it to Boris and earn back the trust of the people we lost.