"I can't remember what the topic was, but they were having a phone-in. The best parallel I found is that Samuel Johnson wrote a very famous sermon; what he was saying was that there are some things the law can't deal with directly, because what they consist of are 1,000 small acts of unkindness. [31] A Home Office report subsequently showed child sexual abuse gangs were typically divided on race lines, but more widely that the majority of child sex offenders were made up of white men under the age of 30. Members of the House of Lords should also, he proposes, be subjected to fixed terms of 20 years. If you look at the figures one way, there is clear evidence of discrimination against state school pupils but no one is making that argument," she said. he laughs. My point is that our business is not to be going round poking our nose into every particular event or case, but to raise the expectations of all of the industries so that what they expect from their own people is greater than they used to be.". Later in 1999, Phillips ran to be Labour's candidate for Mayor of London. He returned to England to study at Imperial College London, where he obtained a BSc degree in chemistry in 1975. Trevor Phillips was born on 31 December 1953 in London, England, UK. But it is hard to deny his declining popularity among ethnic-minority organisations as he takes over at the new Equalities Commission. Our mission is about promoting equality. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. We're not a pressure group. [40], Phillips became head of the Commission for Racial Equality in 2003, and on its abolition in 2006 was appointed full-time chairman of its successor, the EHRC (initially called the Commission for Equality and Human Rights), which had a broader remit of combating discrimination and promoting equality across other grounds (age, disability, gender, race, religion and belief, sexual orientation and gender reassignment). Many are concerned that Phillips, and the Government, is following an agenda which seeks to blame black communities instead of tackling institutional racism. Four years ago he was accused by Ken Livingstone of going "so far over to the other side that I expect he'll soon be joining the BNP", by declaring multiculturalism a misguided failure, leading us "sleepwalking towards segregation". Trevor Phillips was married to Asha Bhownagary for 28 years, and Helen Veale for 9 years. "Hip-hop stars and so forth - what are they? His long-standing friendship with Peter Mandelson (who worked with Phillips at LWT and was best man at his first wedding) brought him close to the New Labour project and he became friendly with Tony Blair. Surface meets surface. Ministers hope the stringent selection process, overseen by an independent recruitment company, will dispel any allegations of cronyism. 'Miss Veale and I met and began a relationship in the autumn of last year.. Mr Herbert said: "It's the sort of thing you should do full-time. Phillips has made speeches stating that "it was right to ask hard questions about multicultural Britain". And a caller rang in and said, 'They'll send that Trevor Phillips round, won't they, to put us in the nick.'" [33] Phillips defended his statements on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, reiterating his view that Muslims should not be treated as a racial group and saying "Muslims are different, and in many ways I think thats admirable". He also served as chairman of the London Arts Board. It was now the Muslim community, and Phillips seemed unable to get a handle on the change. He has been married to Asha Aline Francine Bhownagary since July 25, 1981. His recent attacks on multiculturalism have won him plaudits on the right, too. Mr Phillips, a New Labour supporter, had been heavily tipped to. His wife is Asha Aline Francine Bhownagary (25 July 1981 - present) ( 2 children) Trevor Phillips Net Worth His net worth has been growing significantly in 2020-2021. She has worked for Education and Social Services and in a Hospital Paediatric department and Special Care Baby Unit. [11] Following this and other controversies, including his decision to send his children to a private school, Phillips withdrew from the race a few months later and was not on the final shortlist of candidates. "If I'm in the Caribbean, I'm standing on the street corner, I look like everybody else. He continues to be wedded to Asha Aline Francine Bhownagary since July 25, 1981. It was only in 1996 that he actually joined the Labour Party, though this was chiefly because he felt that his role in television barred him from holding a party card. Phone-in callers may regard Phillips as a member of the thought police, but others object that he's not bold enough, and earlier this month the former head of the Commission for Racial Equality condemned his silence over the Carol Thatcher "golliwog" affair. [35], Phillips's suspension from the Labour Party was lifted in June 2021, though investigations had not concluded. All of these impact most brutally on racial minorities, and on all of them the CRE has been eerily silent," she said. Married equality chief Trevor Phillips looks happy and relaxed as he strolls in the morning sunshine with the new woman in his life. Last summer, Mr Phillips was a panellist in a show produced by Ms Veales company at the Edinburgh Festival. It is a background from which he has developed some controversial thoughts about the nature of Britishness - a subject on which he was expanding to Teachers TV yesterday. What we should be talking about is how we reach an integrated society, one in which people are equal under the law, where there are common values of democracy rather than violence, the common currency of the English language, honouring the culture of these islands, like Shakespeare and Dickens.". The Labour Party designated Phillips as a member of the London Assembly on 4 May 2000 as one of its "top-up" candidates. to be Blair's preferred choice for the role, and when Blair called for the party to swiftly unite behind one candidate, Ken Livingstone, a left-winger and favourite to win the nomination, offered to form a joint ticket with Phillips as his running mate. ", "Culturally," he has said, "I'm pretty used to moving from one guise to another.". It was as a student that he met his wife, Asha Bhownagary, from whom he is separated. Sushila Phillips, 18, whose father, Trevor, is a prominent member of the Labour Party and who chaired the London Assembly until his recent appointment, believes that she was rejected by Bristol because she attends Westminster School, one of Britain's most prestigious independent schools, which charges day pupils fees of 12,000. [6], In March 2015, Channel 4 aired Things We Won't Say About Race (That Are True), a feature-length documentary written and presented by Phillips and co-produced by Pepper Productions and Outline Productions. He now lives in Crouch End, north London. [32], Phillips was suspended from the Labour Party pending investigation into alleged Islamophobia based on his past statements, a move which he called "Corbynista payback" and "pure political gangsterism". Phillips laughs and shakes his head, more amazed than indignant. Trevor Phillips was first married in 1981 to Asha Bhownagary. Phillips and Bhownagary separated in February 2008. This week the Mayor of London, Mr Livingstone, joined in the criticism, accusing Phillips of preferring to create headlines rather than get on with combating racism and discrimination. 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These comments came after the protests against the Danish cartoons satirising the Islamic prophet, Muhammad which sparked protests in the Muslim community. "So-called Muslim leaders", he said, were "overly defensive". In the coming months the equalities bill will pass through parliament, seeking to consolidate more than 100 existing acts of anti-discrimination legislation into a coherent philosophy of equality for the 21st century. If I go into a shop, they know I've come from England because I start looking for the queue. [18] Phillips has subsequently cited recent work by, amongst others, Professor Eric Kaufmann of Birkbeck College, London showing that white and non-white segregation in London and Birmingham has increased during the census period to 2011. Howequality tsar Trevor fightsageism . He was particularly critical of a plan for a seminar at the CRE's 30th anniversary celebrations this week entitled "Rivers of blood: Did Enoch Powell get it right?". Now, Mr Phillips spends most of his time at Ms Veales 220,000 first-floor flat in Kentish Town and has his own set of keys to the property. It's big and broad. 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[29] Writing for the Middle East Eye, Peter Oborne said Phillips had employed a double standard to attack social conservatism by comparing British Muslim views against Britain as a whole, rather than against other UK religious groups. Shouldn't these circumstances count as well?" Why would you want to do something else?" Failure is not something of which anyone could accuse Trevor Phillips, who is to be the first head of the new Commission for Equalities and Human Rights, which will cover the entire range of anti-discrimination, from gender, sexual orientation, disability and other minority interests to, eventually, race. Phillips was married to Asha Bhownagary for 28 years. But others might consider the notion of economic equality as an inalienable human right - analogous to gender or racial equality - absurd if not anti-democratic. Mr Phillips, 49, was born in Islington, north London, and went to school at White Hart Lane school in Tottenham, a grammar that turned comprehensive while he was a pupil. Phillips was served as chairman of the Runnymede Trust, a think-tank promoting ethnic equality, from 1993 to 1998, and as a commissioner for a number of other charities. If class is afforded the permanent legal status afforded to race or gender, the political implications will be profound. These themes avoid conflict with government, and lay the blame with black and Asian people for their own plight.". Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a12d3d40f5ae1c3 After retirement, he continued to chair numerous corporate and social boards. More of this later.) Sushila had written for publications including the Sunday Times after graduating with a first class honours degree in English literature from York University in 2008. 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