In May 2015, the newly elected MP for Birmingham Yardley gave her maiden speech in the House of Commons. Jess Phillips vowed to improve Britain’s ‘response to victims of domestic and sexual violence and abuse in all its forms’.

In the years since, Phillips has certainly made a lot of noise about discrimination and sexual abuse. She has attacked select committees for not having enough female chairs; threated to resign from the Labour party over its response to sexual harassment allegations against her colleagues; and, annually, read out the names in Parliament of every woman killed by a man in the previous 12 months.

Perhaps decades of intersectional fourth wave feminism have rendered Phillips blind to the racial elements of certain types of misogyny

But until this year, her mettle – her

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