Jess Phillips calls MP a 'patriarchal patronising Tory' after he accuses her of being too loud in debate
Apparently Mr Jackson told Ms Phillips to 'put a sock in it'
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Your support makes all the difference.Jess Phillips MP has hit out at a Conservative MP for being “patriarchal” and “patronising” after he criticised her on Twitter for raising her voice during a debate.
The Labour MP initially told her 15,000 followers that Stewart Jackson, the MP for Peterborough, had told her to “put a sock in it” during a debate on housing and homelessness.
Writing on Twitter, Ms Phillips mocked Mr Jackson, writing: “What a guy.”
He responded by saying she needed a “little decorum in the House” which Ms Phillips did not take lying down.
Linking back to his tweet, she called him a “patriarchal patronising Tory” and criticised him for being hypocritical after he apparently “shouted throughout”.
Ignoring this, Mr Jackson responded by telling Ms Phillips she was “way too noisy” during the debate in the House of Commons – an arena typically associated with men shouting each other down on a Wednesday afternoon during Prime Ministers Questions.
He also offered her a backhanded compliment by asking “what’s not to like” about someone "who told Dianne Abbott where to shove it”.
Mr Jackson was referring to an argument that reportedly occurred between the two Labour MPs in September over Jeremy Corbyn’s apparent failure to appoint female MPs to senior positions in his shadow cabinet.
Ms Phillips is a fairly new MP after being elected in May as the representative for Birmingham Yardley. In her maiden speech she chose to highlight the issue of homelessness as well as sexual and domestic violence.
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