Bridget bucked the trend, as deputy leader she’ll change it for good. People like me and Bridget Phillipson aren’t supposed to rise to the top of politics. We need a united Labour party to beat the poisonous politics of Farage and expose the parties who offer false hope but can’t deliver change. Child poverty is the reason so many of us joined the Labour party in the first place. Bridget has done more than any other cabinet minister to lift children out of poverty since last July.