Jess Phillips and the “Esquire” profile name

Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley

Tweet text

Changed my profile name

Jess Phillips shared a screenshot of her new Twitter display name after reports about Jacob Rees-Mogg’s rules for official correspondence.

Original post on X Jess Phillips on X

Why it mattered

The rules included forms of address such as Esq. Phillips turned the story into a joke about her own name, using the editable profile field as the punchline.

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