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. Mr Phillips, 55, was seen hand-in-hand with TV producer Helen Veale who is 16 years younger near her flat in North-West London, just a couple of miles from his marital home in Crouch End. Many thought he was playing into the hands of the right-wing anti-immigration lobby, but he stuck to his line. Born December 31, 1953 Add or change photo on IMDbPro Why would I be interested in prancing around saying, 'Ooh, I've caught a garage in Northampton doing something naughty?'" Official Sites. Who Is Trevor Phillips's Wife? Read writing from Asha Bhownagary on Medium. 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. FRSA 1995. They're people who get shot, they're people who get put in prison, they're people who steal, they're people who basically are unpleasant and bullying. Phillips was married to Asha Bhownagary for 28 years. "Hip-hop stars and so forth - what are they? He has been married to Asha Aline Francine Bhownagary since 25 July 1981. [54], He received a knighthood in the 2022 New Year Honours in recognition of his services to equality and human rights. ", Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. "They think that we're just there to catch them out. Phillips's latest edict may have puzzled the public but it was safe to assume that he was on message with No 10. His CRE was noticeably reticent over concerns among Muslim leaders about the impact of terror laws on Asian communities. "Among the big race issues of recent years have been the Government's shameful treatment of asylum-seekers; Belmarsh; and control orders. "I completely understand what you say, and I accept it. Mr Phillips met his wife, who is a child psychologist, as a student and the couple have two grown-up daughters. The biggest things that are driving inequality today are class, place, culture and sometimes structure in institutions. "I can't imagine there will be cries of wild enthusiasm from the floor," he agrees. T revor Phillips' daughter has tragically died after a 22-year battle with anorexia. He stated in an ITV interview: "One point of Britishness is that people can say what they like about the way we should live, however absurd, however unpopular it is. Their longest marriage has been 28 years to Asha Bhownagary. Announcing the news on Facebook, Holiday wrote: Dear all my beloved sister Sushi passed away on Sunday morning after a 22-year battle with anorexia. [citation needed] He has been a member of the board of the Barbican Arts Centre,[39] the Council of Aldeburgh Music, and a trustee of the Social Mobility Foundation, among other charities. 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. Exactly how she would have wanted it. [10], As a student at Imperial he became president of its students' union. Asha Phillips is a child psychotherapist trained at the Tavistock Clinic. JetBlue pilot forced to take 'evasive action' after an aircraft crossed the runway when it 'Are you trying to get me canceled again?' [47] He expanded on these views in 2016 in a publication by Civitas entitled Race and Faith: the Deafening Silence, in which he said that "squeamishness about addressing diversity and its discontents risks allowing our country to sleepwalk to a catastrophe that will set community against community, endorse sexist aggression, suppress freedom of expression, reverse hard-won civil liberties, and undermine the liberal democracy that has served this country so well for so long."[48]. "Not really," he says at first. "Well, I dare any government to say to the electorate, 'We're going to come to power on a programme that says we will stop the momentum towards more equality, more participation, more influence for people from ethnic minorities or for women.' 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. George Walden, the author of Time To Emigrate?, recently described Phillips as "a modern-minded, intelligent man, whose words reflect what everyone - migrants included - see around them.". Phillips and Bhownagary separated in February 2008. ", His submission to the Speaker's conference is ambitious - but probably not, in fact, the most radical aspect of Phillips' agenda. (Possibly not, but Trevor Phillips, ambitious politician? Phillips's tenure as EHRC chairman is the longest for any individual in any similar position in the UK. Trevor Phillips girlfriend, wife list. He opposed National Front marches, led sit-ins, and was elected the first black president of the National Union of Students. [27], Responses to the documentary were mixed. "There are other factors that could be taken into account by universities. Mr Phillips, 55, was seen hand-in-hand with TV producer Helen Veale - who is 16 years younger - near her flat in North-West London, just a couple of miles from his marital home in Crouch End. He and Tony Blair exchange Christmas cards. But he still shares his car with his wife and often pops round to collect it. ", Presumably, I suggest, this is why phone-in callers think he'll come round and have them locked up. He continues to be wedded to Asha Aline Francine Bhownagary since July 25, 1981. Ministers hope the stringent selection process, overseen by an independent recruitment company, will dispel any allegations of cronyism. They were last married in 2013 to Helen Veale. What young black men need, says Trevor Phillips, who stepped down as chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality this week in preparation for taking over as the top man in a far bigger quango, is better role models. Education: Queen's College, Georgetown, Guyana; Imperial College, London (BSc, ARCS), Career: President, National Union of Students, 1978-80; London Weekend Television: researcher, 1980-81; producer, Black on Black, The Making of Britain, 1981-86; reporter, This Week, Thames TV, 1986-87; London Weekend Television: editor, London Programme, 1987-92; head, current affairs, 1992-94; presenter: London Programme, 1987-2000; Crosstalk, 1994-2000; The Material World, 1998-2000. I have met the girls with whom she shared the hellish wards reserved for the most distressed, and learnt not to look away when she tells me that Ill never see one of them again because she has taken her own life.. "We are in a different world from the 1970s. The party appointed him to the London Assembly in 2000, but he stood down three years later to take over the Commission for Racial Equality, before succeeding to his post as chair of the new EHRC in 2006. Sushila Phillips, 36,a freelance journalist, died peacefully in her own bed in our mums arms, according to her sister, Holiday, 33. Howequality tsar Trevor fightsageism . [4][5], Phillips worked initially as a researcher for London Weekend Television (LWT), before being promoted to head of current affairs in 1992, remaining in the post until 1994. Now, Mr Phillips spends most of his time at Ms Veale's 220,000 first-floor flat in Kentish Town and has his own set of keys to the property. "We are extremely surprised that she did not receive an offer. The Commission's proposals were in part implemented in UK legislation in the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 and the Equality Act 2010, both of which he influenced as Chair of the EHRC. He presented Trevor Phillips on Sunday, a Sunday morning talk show on Sky News, from 2021 to 2022. 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. ", 'The task today is not to shout for black people or women, but to break the grip of white men who went to public school. If I go into a shop, they know I've come from England because I start looking for the queue. 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. His appointment is initially for four years, by the end of which he could be in line to head the new equality commission the government plans to forge from the CRE, equal opportunities commission and disability rights commission. Phillips has made speeches stating that "it was right to ask hard questions about multicultural Britain". More about Trevor Phillips I think it's important to tell people that where we are now is undermining the legitimacy of our parliament, and therefore our democracy, and that the scale of the remedies has to be big and radical enough to match that. And frankly you are judged by that". It isn't the most important thing any more. It was hard to imagine him adopting a similar position a decade earlier had anyone attacked the black community in similar terms. Then, when one government minister after another followed Jack Straw's lead in criticising the use of the veil by Muslim women, instead of offering the corrective many expected from the chair of the Commission for Racial Equality, Phillips added his own broadside. "Somehow I don't quite see that chiming with anyone who knows me well." He produced and presented The London Programme for LWT and has worked on projects for the BBC and Channel 4. ", The shadow deputy prime minister, David Davis, said: "It is not a surprise to see yet another one of Tony's cronies in an important and prominent role. Edinburgh made a similar statement on the subject only recently.". Mr Herbert said: "It's the sort of thing you should do full-time. They have two children. 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. ", "We live in a society, he said, "where black maleness is in some ways the definition of failure.". At LWT he worked again with Peter Mandelson, who was best man at his 1981 wedding to Asha Bhownagary, a Parsee child psychologist. [46], Phillips completed his second term of office in September 2012, which, together with his term at the CRE made him the longest serving leader of any UK equality commission. The former left-wing. . The radical trio went to Cuba and condemned the Soviet Union as reactionary - though even then, one contemporary recalls, Phillips was a smooth operator who behind the scenes would rather seek "consensus than conflict". If I start walking, everybody can tell I'm foreign, because I'm walking twice as fast. [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". "Yeah, but we can help people not do that. 'So I wonder whether or not I could take a telephone number and ring you later., Mrs Phillips said: I have no comment to make., By I'm not there to bash you and get you for some time in the last 10 years when you've been rude to somebody.". 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. 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. The independent sector fears that the Government's new "access regulator" - the watchdog that will police admissions policies - will put even more pressure on top universities to admit more working-class applicants. [35], Phillips's suspension from the Labour Party was lifted in June 2021, though investigations had not concluded. And it's flourishing now not as grand acts of discrimination, or bigotry, that everyone can see in Technicolor, but a much more subtle and difficult set of actions. In the autumn Phillips will reach the end of his three-year term in charge of Britain's biggest quango, and discover whether or not it will be renewed. This is not a question of freedom of speech, this is a juvenile provocation." That isn't actually the case" - Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London, Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. Trevor Phillips and his ex-wife Asha pictured together at the 1997 Laurence Olivier Awards. In March 2015, Phillips was appointed as the President of the Partnership Council of the John Lewis Partnership for a three-year term. National identity, he said, is about more than symbols like the Queen and the flag. 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. Britain was "sleepwalking towards segregation". 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. He prefers to use terms like "systemic bias" rather than institutional racism - but what exactly does he mean? Members of the House of Lords should also, he proposes, be subjected to fixed terms of 20 years. They don't just need footballers or musicians, they need, well, people like Trevor Phillips. Phillips joined the Labour Party in London in 1996. He was chairman of the Runnymede Trust, a charity concerned with race issues, from 1993 to 1998. "Look, I'm spending 70m of public money a year, and I want that 70m to be spent on getting bad people. Phillips will call for the introduction of fixed terms for MPs, forcing them to step down after a maximum of four parliaments. Trevor Phillips was married to Asha Bhownagary for 28 years, and Helen Veale for 9 years. The commission's former head, Gurbux Singh, resigned after a drunken row with a police officer outside Lord's cricket ground. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. If parliament believes it can't do anything about this problem, then it should shut up about it and stop wringing its hands. In an article published in 2003,[49] Phillips stated that "from Rome, through Constantinople to Venice and London, our (European) nations have a history of peacefully absorbing huge, diverse movements of people, driven by war, famine and persecution; and there is no history of long-term ethnic segregation of the kind one can see in any US city". A return to politics Of course, yes, it would be disingenuous and pathetic, and the kind of thing politicians say, if I were to pretend it's not an option. His is the first external appointment since 1928. HE SAYS "Race relations is the one issue where everybody thinks that they are experts based upon what happened to them in Tesco last week. [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. My wife's family did not speak English as a first language. 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. 'Miss Veale and I met and began a relationship in the autumn of last year.. He is a Vice President of the RTS. It is a story he may come to regret telling. The report helped establish the term "Islamophobia" in UK discourse and it noted that abuse against Muslims was often racialised therefore "a legal term such as religious and racial violence is required". He joked of Mandelson three years Trevor Phillips, the broadcaster and London assembly chairman, is to be the new chairman of the commission for racial equality. He is a producer and writer, known for Britain's Slave Trade (1999), Windrush (1998) and National Treasure: Kiri (2018). Login to add information, pictures and relationships, join in discussions and get credit for your contributions. Definitions of Trevor Phillips, synonyms, antonyms, derivatives of Trevor Phillips, analogical dictionary of Trevor Phillips (English) French Embassy in London: Mr Trevor Phillips made Chevalier de la Lgion dHonneur. Every day, Asha Bhownagary and thousands of other voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium. Well, possibly because he represents the interests of people who are at the mercy of garages in Northampton doing things that are illegal? 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. According to our records, Asha Aline Francine Bhownagary is possibly single. Phillips has in the past recalled how, as a boy, his father took him to watch Arsenal. We are here to do something which I think is profoundly important to this society. 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Trevor Philips, Who Is a Race Advisor, and His Psychotherapist Wife Whom He Divorced Share the Agony and Pain of Their Eldest Daughter Died After a 22 Year Battle With Anorexia and Thoughts of Suicide - https://t.co/zqhAkTcQA4 pic.twitter.com/la9cw3gPhQ BCNN1 (@bcnn1) April 22, 2021 Who Is Helen Veale Daughter? He is a producer and writer, known for Britain's Slave Trade (1999), Windrush (1998) and National Treasure: Kiri (2018). 21:42 GMT 16 May 2009 Considering the city an unfit place for children, they sent Trevor to a school in Guyana - an "Edwardian" experience, he later said, of old-fashioned discipline, uniforms, detentions, tough lessons and corporal punishment. We 're just there to catch them out if parliament believes it ca n't imagine there will cries... Maximum of four parliaments of speech, this is why phone-in callers think he 'll come round and them... 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