But although the eventual winner, Ken Livingstone, offered him the role of deputy mayor, Phillips loyally became the running mate of the official Labour candidate, Frank Dobson, and promptly lost. Every day, Asha Bhownagary and thousands of other voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium. Sushila Phillips, 36, a freelance journalist, died 'peacefully in her. Mr Phillips, 63, was prompted to write about his daughters illness in the Times last month after Meghan Markle recounted her own mental health issues in an interview with Oprah Winfrey. But I don't just say things in order to be able to say to my mates over dinner, 'Ooh, I issued a press release.' Members of the House of Lords should also, he proposes, be subjected to fixed terms of 20 years. This is not a question of freedom of speech, this is a juvenile provocation." Phillips entered public life as a student radical. [50] Following Obama's election, in an interview for The Times on 8 November 2008,[51] Phillips said that he believed it would be impossible for a black candidate in the United Kingdom to rise to the top in politics because of institutional racism within the Labour Party, saying: If Barack Obama had lived here I would be very surprised if even somebody as brilliant as him would have been able to break through the institutional stranglehold that there is on power within the Labour party. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Managing director, Pepper Productions, 1994- Chairman: Runnymede Trust, 1993-98; Hampstead Theatre, 1993-97; London Arts Board, 1997-2000. Phillips laughs and shakes his head, more amazed than indignant. He presented Trevor Phillips on Sunday, a Sunday morning talk show on Sky News, from 2021 to 2022. He applied for a job as a researcher at London Weekend Television, where he was interviewed by John Birt. The 110,000-a-year executive was casually dressed in sports gear. Isn't he asking turkeys to vote for Christmas? Trevor Phillips, the broadcaster and London assembly chairman, is to be the new chairman of the commission for racial equality. ", In the past, Phillips has accused lawyers of "mischievously hijacking" the Human Rights Act, but isn't he opening himself to the charge of hijacking the EHRC for more politically mischievous ends than it was conceived? Phillips's latest edict may have puzzled the public but it was safe to assume that he was on message with No 10. The romantic outing comes just a few months after the head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) publicly admitted splitting from his wife of 28 years, Asha Bhownagary. They have two children. Phillips has in the past recalled how, as a boy, his father took him to watch Arsenal. Who cares about their anguish that there aren't enough ethnic minority people in parliament, if they won't do anything about it? JetBlue pilot forced to take 'evasive action' after an aircraft crossed the runway when it 'Are you trying to get me canceled again?' The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, which represents private schools, has advised its members to boycott Bristol, after it emerged the university was giving lower offers to promising pupils from schools with poor academic results and was choosing state school pupils in preference to private school applicants with the same grades. Official Sites. [24] Phillips was responding to the growing uproar surrounding proposals to amend counter-terrorism legislation to permit 42 days' detention without charge. 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. Conservative Member of the House of Lords Sayeeda Warsi responded that "Phillips cannot treat Muslims as a homogenised group when it suits him, then later deny they are racialised". Black figures such as the MP Diane Abbott have accused Phillips of being too close to the Government. Mr Phillips, 55, was seen hand-in-hand with TV producer. 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.". He must address head on the racism that continues to shackle black talent and leave many with little hope. Just as I'm leaving, though, I ask if he'd ever consider standing for election again. Born in England in 1953, the seventh child of a working-class immigrant family with no money but high aspirations, he was schooled between London and Guyana, and elected president of the National. "[22], While supporting free speech, Phillips has spoken out against providing the far-right with a platform. As four out of five sitting MPs currently stand for re-election, any other measure to increase diversity of intake would be limited, he reasons, to just one fifth of the house, making progress unacceptably slow. 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. This is an opportunity to bring about change, instead of bleating on about it, which is what parliamentarians specialise in. Still, he had his reward. Sir Mark Trevor Phillips OBE ARCS FIC (born 31 December 1953) is a British writer, broadcaster and former politician who served as Chair of the London Assembly from 2000 to 2001 and from 2002 to 2003. Wouldn't a black mayor of London be the perfect John the Baptist to a black leader in Westminster? His own family experiences had taught him that none of us can truly know what the duke and duchess experienced when they talk about the toll on their mental health, Mr Phillips said. This year the English department rejected 78 per cent of independent school applicants and 85 per cent of state school applicants. "It was easy in the old days when all we had to say was, 'Look guys, I'm standing up for the black people and women.' They are believed to have met through their TV work. He returned to Britain for his higher education at Imperial College, London, where he enrolled as a chemistry undergraduate. "We might seem to be out on a limb but we are not. Asha Aline Francine Bhownagary was previously married to Trevor Phillips (1981). In a Times interview in April 2004, Phillips said the government should stop supporting multiculturalism, claiming it was out of date and legitimised "separateness" between communities, and instead should "assert a core of Britishness". This will be a big year for Phillips, and such moments are both comic and probably quite unnerving. His parents, from Guyana, were so disappointed at the decline of the school that they sent him to school in the Caribbean. Edinburgh made a similar statement on the subject only recently.". She was rejected by Bristol, despite achieving two A/S-level A grades, and gaining a mark of 296 out of 300 in her A/S-level English. Multiculturalism: disagreements with Ken Livingstone, Comparisons between Britain and the United States, Jones, Sam; Sturcke, James. Their longest marriage has been 28 years to Asha Bhownagary. Not to get people who are trying to make a living, and haven't got time to worry too much about the 116 pieces of equality legislation." 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. Phillips was appointed head of the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) by Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2003 and was the chairman of its successor, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), from 2007 to 2012. Ron DeSantis has good news for Brexiteers but bad news for Tories, Titanic shipyard scrambles to cut energy costs after missing out on taxpayer support, Pensioner risks arrest by blaring siren outside Russian diplomats home at 2am, Crime sees Democrat Chicago mayor become first to lose re-election bid in decades, Andrew Bailey downplays talk of sharp rise in interest rates, I have a 97 per cent chance of getting cancer so Im living life like theres no tomorrow, has advised its members to boycott Bristol. Trevor Phillips and his ex-wife Asha pictured together at the 1997 Laurence Olivier Awards. She regularly teaches and lectures at home and abroad. Phillips described Livingstone's offer as "patronising" in a response that was seen as an accusation of racism, though Phillips later denied this. 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