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 ►