I thought I could be a politician and a human being. I was wrong Jess Phillips, Comment is Free

Jess Phillips got into politics with a plan to show the public MPs were not all the same. Subscribe to The Guardian But, she says, she now realises that showing your personality as a politician is a mistake. Fear of a public backlash is what turns MPs into the line driven robots we find so frustrating, she argues, so we should no longer complain about them. This is the NHS Guardian website