Labour's Jess Phillips hasn't ruled out running to replace Jeremy Corbyn - but says it can't be just be a "personality game".
“If people trust me then yes I will take a role in rebuilding," she said.
“But I’m not going to sit here and make your headlines tonight when the thing that matters to me more than anything is having a healthy vehicle to change the world is in tatters.
“This isn’t about headlines - this is about people’s lives.”
Speaking before the result of her Birmingham Yardley constituency was announced, Ms Phillips said the night had been “s***”.
She said: “It’s just totally devastating. It’s totally devastating that all the people that I see every day, they are going to have nowhere to turn.
“It feels like a kick in the stomach.
“I am very emotional, not just for me or the Labour Party, I’m emotional for the people the Labour Party was invented to help.
“I’m emotional that this has happened across the parts of the country that for lots of us we have felt that they were never being listened to.
“It’s devastating, I can’t pretend otherwise.”
Asked if she wanted to be Labour leader, she replied: “It’s the inevitable question that people will ask me.
“The truth of the matter is I would be lying if I said millions of people hadn’t asked me if I wanted to be leader of the Labour Party.
“At the moment I think that the Labour Party, we have lost four elections with three really different leaders.
“I think it’s more than just a personality game. I know people like me because I have a personality, but that will never be just enough."
She added: “It has to be about more, and it’s about time that the Labour Party took some real time to think about what that is.
“This is about our country.
“Trust in politics is so low that we have let a man, that literally nobody I spoke to trusted, have a majority that will devastate my community.
“On the doorstep the things that people were saying, there was some Brexit .
“But I heard a huge amount of people telling me they didn’t think Jeremy Corbyn was a leader they could get behind.
“I have to say, it wasn’t just him as a person, because people didn’t like Boris Johnson either.
“But the reality is that they didn’t trust we were going to do the things we said we were going to do.
“They might have liked some of it, but they didn’t trust we were going to do it. And they didn’t trust him to do it.
“I could sit and dress this up. I can see the headlines. Everybody wants the headline where it says ‘Jess Phillips tries to scelp Jeremy Corbyn’.
“That’s not the reality of what I’m saying. People said that they didn’t like him and they didn’t trust him. I’m not going to pretend otherwise.
“The Labour Party has to do a huge amount more than just think that getting rid of one man and replacing him with, well, we usually replace him with a man, will simply make it okay.”
