Jess Phillips is the 35-year-old Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley who famously told Diane Abbott to f*** off. Corbynites went on to call this racist (actually, Abbott had called the young MP “sanctimonious” for daring to question the lack of women appointments in Labour’s front bench, and as Phillips says now, “I’ll tell anyone to f*** off if they’re rude to me, is the truth”). Phillips is sparky, bolshie, a “proud parliamentarian” who got pregnant at 23, a month after getting together with Tom, a lift engineer who has since given up work to look after the kids. (“We’d known each other for ages” she says, in between sucks on an e-cigarette.)

She worked for Woman’s Aid before becoming an MP in 2015, and has continued to bang her feminist drum in the Commons - she chairs the Women’s Parliamentary Labour Party, and on International Women’s Day last year, she stood up in the Commons and read out the names of the 120 females killed in the previous 12 months. Last autumn, she successfully campaigned for extra funding to be ring-fenced for women’s refuges. Damian Green, the work and pensions secretary, congratulated her on her achievements, but her own party seemed less keen to pat her on the back, with one Corbynite blog accusing her of only ever having been a business manager at Women’s Aid (she managed the refuges).