Jess Phillips MP
We’ve fact checked Jess Phillips twice. We’ve asked her to correct the record once. Join others in her constituency of Birmingham Yardley to ask her to stand up for honesty in public life.
Your trust should be earned. Any MP making serious claims in public debate should be prepared to get their facts right, back up what they say with evidence and correct their mistakes.
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We’ve fact checked Jess Phillips twice
Full Fact scrutinises claims made by politicians on all sides of political debate. We prioritise claims that have the potential to cause most harm.
Our team isn’t able to monitor and fact check all claims made by every politician, so this list isn’t exhaustive. It isn’t accurate to use these examples to draw comparisons about the overall behaviour of individual MPs or political parties.
Are UK nationals a minority in the modern slavery statistics?
Before the Prime Minister parrots his prepared answer about increases in the number of people accessing our modern slavery system, let me educate him and everyone else in this House, that the biggest increase in the last ten years has been from the huge increase in British adults and children trafficked for sex and crime within Britain.
Jess Phillips, 15 March 2023
The Bank of England hasn’t already spent £65 billion following mini-Budget
Perhaps [chancellor Kwasi] Kwarteng can now sit in a room and be forced to count to 65 Billion which was the cost of his mistake.
Jess Phillips, 3 October 2022
We’ve asked Jess Phillips to correct the record once
It’s important that those making claims in public life correct their mistakes. We follow up on our fact checks to ask politicians and media organisations to issue corrections when they get things wrong.
We have been in touch with Jess Phillips about one of her claims. She has yet to correct the record.
Jess Phillips made an inaccurate claim about the amount the Government's mini-Budget cost the Bank of England on 3 October 2022
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