She served as a Green Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 2019 to 2020.

[11] She was elected to represent the Goldsmid ward on Brighton and Hove City Council in a 2009 by-election,[12] and re-elected in 2011.

[19] Outside of her council roles, she has worked as the policy lead at the HIV and sexual health charity, Terrence Higgins Trust, and as a French and German language secondary school teacher in Croydon, London, and later Hampshire.

[21] In the 2014 European parliamentary election, Phillips stood as a candidate in the South East England constituency.

[22][23] In the election, the Green Party won just one seat in South East England which therefore went to Taylor as their first-placed candidate.

[29] In the European Parliament, she was a member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, and part of the delegation to the ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.