00:00I therefore do hereby declare that Phillips, Jessica Rose, known as Jess Phillips, is duly elected as the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley constituency.
00:11Jody! Jody! Jody! Jody! Jody!
00:29We're going to continue with the class that we had during the campaign
00:32Excuse me,
00:37It's alright
00:39The election that I have...
00:45I will carry on with my speech. I understand that a strong woman standing up to you is met with such reticence.
01:03Anyway, this election has been...
01:27This election has been the worst election I have ever stood in.
01:32Today, a brilliant community activist who puts on events for every single part of our community came out to campaign with me.
01:44And people filmed her on the streets and then slashed her tyres.
01:53A young woman, a young woman on her own delivering leaflets was filmed and screamed at by a much older man in the street.
02:08Today, I was to be joined by the family of Jo Cox who wanted to come out and campaign with me.
02:20And there is absolutely no way I could have allowed for them to see what was aggressive and violence in our democracy.
02:35And now, to the positive. Birmingham Yardley gave my family everything that we have.
02:44And today, actually not today, yesterday, was the 13th anniversary of my mother dying.
02:51And my mother was born in Gleneagles Road in Yardley.
02:56And my dad lived in a council house around the corner.
03:00And everything good that they ever had and everything good that my children had, that I had as a child, was provided for us by successive Labour governments.
03:14The greatest honour to my mother today is that we will have a chance not just to be an opposition MP,
03:26but to be somebody who opens things, just doesn't have to campaign just about closing them.
03:32Our country is in desperate, desperate need and our politics is in even greater need of cleaning up.
03:40And I thank everybody in this room for making a really good spectacle of proving that for me.
03:46I'd like to thank the people who work for me so incredibly hard.
03:51To John, to David, to Catherine, to Olivia, to Anna, Apollo and Jane.
03:56And to my amazing activists, Yvette, Zafar and Saqib, who have worked like absolute Trojans in this election.
04:06I'd also like to thank West Midlands Police for the constant phone calls they had to take from me today.
04:11And for their responses to the aggression that we have suffered.
04:16I'd like to thank my husband and my children. I didn't bring my children here tonight because I knew that this would happen and they deserve better.
04:24And I know that a Labour government will provide them with better and they will build a better future for our city.
04:33And just finally, I love that my seat was a marginal seat.
04:41I think marginal seats make better Members of Parliament.
04:46And that is exactly what I have always been and always will be.
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