Hello, my name is David Ronsman and this is Talking Politics. This week we're talking

to Jess Phillips, the MP for Birmingham Yardley, elected in 2015 and one of the most interesting

and outspoken members of Parliament.

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I spoke to Jess Phillips this weekend at the Cambridge Literary Festival where she was

here to talk about Brexit and we get on to that a bit later in the conversation. We're

in a slightly echoey room in St John's College and you might hear a few people on the street

outside. She was here to talk about Brexit but I also wanted to talk to her about her

book which was published earlier this year. It's called Every Woman, One Woman's Truth

about Speaking the Truth and I think it is one of the most interesting and entertaining

thought-provoking politics books of 2017. It came out in February so it came out before

Weinstein. It came out before the recent wave of scandal that's gone through Westminster

so this is pre-Fallen and I started by asking her whether anything had really changed since

Weinstein, since Fallon. Is anything different about Westminster now?

Nothing has physically changed, no policy has physically changed yet but there is definitely

a sea change in the way people feel. Both from the side of the sort of people who might

have perpetrated this behaviour but also those who have tolerated it and those who have

been biased to it. I think there's probably quite a lot of fear in the halls of Westminster

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