She then worked for the Evening Argus in Brighton, Connors News Agency and Woman before joining Trinity Mirror (now Reach) in 1998 as a feature writer on the Sunday People magazine.
In 2016, Phillips launched The New Day, a national newspaper which aimed to deliver politically neutral news, primarily for a female audience.
[13] In June 2018, she was a guest on BBC One's Question Time, declaring that the Brexit negotiations had made Britain "a global laughing stock".
[14] In 2018 she was named a "Columnist of the Year" at the National Press Awards,[15] for her weekly Wednesday column in the Daily Mirror.
Under her editorship, the Daily Mirror's stance on Brexit has been critical of the Conservative government, but remained opposed to calls for a second referendum.