A FIERY female Labour MP has revealed how she had to fight off a mugging outside Parliament itself.

A cyclist tried to grab prominent backbencher Jess Phillips’ phone from her as she left her House of Commons office after a late vote on Tuesday night.

2 Jess Phillips had to fight off a mugger outside Parliament Credit: Rex Features

With alarming audacity, the man on a bicycle struck on Whitehall just yards away from burly armed police officers standing guard.

Ms Phillips refused to let go of her iPhone, which she had been texting on at the time.

After a five second tussle the attacker gave up and sped off.

The 36 year-old MP for Birmingham Yardley told The Sun: “I was looking for a taxi when a man on a bike slowed down and said something to me, which I didn’t hear.

2 The attempted mugging took place yards away from Parliament on Tuesday night Credit: AFP - Getty

“He then made a grab at my phone. I wouldn’t let go, so we had a bit of a tussle, and then he gave up and shot off.

“I shouted back after him, ‘What the f*** are you doing?’”

Ms Phillips added: “I’m fine, but he had some cheek doing that just outside Parliament. It was late at night and the street was pretty empty, so I suppose he just tried his luck.”

After she tweeted about the incident, the Metropolitan Police approached Ms Phillips and asked her to make a formal report.

Prominent campaigner Ms Phillips became renowned just a few months after first getting elected in 2015 for telling Diane Abbott to “f*** off”.

Asked what Ms Abbott did in response at the time, Ms Phillips said: “She f****ed off.”

She had clashed with the Shadow Home Secretary over the lack of women in Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s first shadow cabinet.

Scotland Yard last night refused to comment.