FRSA 1995. [42][43] However, they were replaced and Phillips later completed his term in September 2012. "Lenin said if you want to create change, you first have to convince people that where we are now is untenable. "And he was not," he adds, "unserious.". The commission's former head, Gurbux Singh, resigned after a drunken row with a police officer outside Lord's cricket ground. Just as I'm leaving, though, I ask if he'd ever consider standing for election again. ", Simon Woolley, the national coordinator for Operation Black Vote, said: "We welcome the appointment. 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?". FAMILY Married to Asha Bhownagary; two daughters, EDUCATION Queen's College boys' school, Georgetown, Guyana; chemistry at Imperial College, London. He now lives in Crouch End, north London. The Labour Party designated Phillips as a member of the London Assembly on 4 May 2000 as one of its "top-up" candidates. I am from a very ordinary background. He is a producer and writer, known for Britain's Slave Trade (1999), Windrush (1998) and Kiri (2018). 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. Shouldn't these circumstances count as well?" Prof Patricia Broadfoot, the pro-vice chancellor of Bristol University, defended the admissions policy that has seen the proportion of private school undergraduates fall from 42 per cent in 1998 to 39 per cent. Mr Phillips, 49, who was born in London to parents from Guyana, is a former president of the National Union of Students who has spent most of his career in television, rising to become head of current affairs at LWT. Mr Phillips met his wife, who is a child psychologist, as a student and the couple have two grown-up daughters. So it would be ridiculous for us, the equalities commission, to say, 'Oh, we're only interested in race and gender and disability. Get your need-to-know ", Mr Woolley, and Peter Herbert, chairman of the Society of Black Lawyers and an unsuccessful candidate for the job, expressed disappointment that Mr Phillips would not be a full-time chairman. 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. She previously studied at North London Collegiate school, another leading independent school. Family (1) Spouse Well, he might look at Barack Obama, and consider the comments he has made in the past about the obstacles facing most black candidates in this country, and conclude that his profile and credentials confer a responsibility on him to run for office. 'Miss Veale and I met and began a relationship in the autumn of last year.. But what I can do, I hope, is make things possible for others in their 30s and 40s who will do that. [23], In early June 2008 Phillips as EHRC head said that he "remain[ed] unpersuaded that the government has yet provided compelling evidence for what our legal advice shows would be an effective suspension of some human rights". Publicity Listings "Instead, it has concentrated on attacking multiculturalism and a sub-Blunkett agenda of "citizenship" and "integration". 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. 09:50 GMT 17 May 2009. Mr Phillips heads his own production company, Pepper Productions, and Ms Veale owns Outline Productions, which specialises in reality TV shows including the Jade Goody documentary Living With Jade, which covered her dying days. According to our records, Asha Aline Francine Bhownagary is possibly single. [20], Phillips wrote in May 2016: "Rome may not yet be in flames, but I think I can smell the smouldering whilst we hum to the music of liberal self-delusion" by ignoring the effects of mass immigration to the United Kingdom, explicitly comparing his warning to Enoch Powell's 1968 Rivers of Blood speech. When approached at her London flat, Ms Veale said: Im actually incredibly busy this morning. Phillips's supporters discount such attacks. It's hard to think of anyone else who'd be more effective against any incursions by an incoming Tory government. [52], The comments received support and criticism from members of ethnic communities in the UK. Personally, I tell him, I'd find it thrilling. 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. He has won three Royal Television Society (RTS) awards, including Documentary Series of the Year for Windrush in 1999. Trevor Phillips: the facts Personal Lives in north London, with second wife, TV producer Helen Veale. 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". Labour MP Khalid Mahmood defended Phillips saying the "charges are so outlandish as to bring disrepute on all involved in making them". Asha Aline Francine Bhownagary was previously married to Trevor Phillips (1981). Phillips was married to Asha Bhownagary for 28 years. If parliament believes it can't do anything about this problem, then it should shut up about it and stop wringing its hands. 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. The 110,000-a-year executive was casually dressed in sports gear. Family (1) Spouse Asha Aline Francine Bhownagary But it is hard to deny his declining popularity among ethnic-minority organisations as he takes over at the new Equalities Commission. Phillips served as chairman of the Assembly until February 2003, resigning his seat to take up his appointment at the Commission for Racial Equality. 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. 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. 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. Mr Herbert said: "It's the sort of thing you should do full-time. 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. Instead, he accepted an offer to be running mate to Frank Dobson. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Mr Phillips who has recently written about his daughters struggles with the eating disorder was present for Sushilas last hours. Relaxes. Phillips and Bhownagary separated in February 2008. [54], He received a knighthood in the 2022 New Year Honours in recognition of his services to equality and human rights. 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. Trevor Phillips was born on December 31, 1953 in London, England, UK. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a12d3d40f5ae1c3 Trevor Phillips was born on 31 December 1953 in London, England, UK. 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. [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. He also has a chauffeur-driven car for work.. He is a Vice President of the RTS. The exemplars offered to black teenage boys in school are part of the problem, Phillips told Teachers' TV News yesterday. " [1], Phillips and Livingstone had a frosty relationship throughout Phillips's time on the London Assembly, and Phillips's opposition to multiculturalism saw them clash time and again during his tenure at the CRE. About Contribute Trevor Phillips and Asha Aline Francine Bhownagary - Dating, Gossip, News, Photos list. His recent attacks on multiculturalism have won him plaudits on the right, too. "Well, I can't not, because people keep asking me about it. Britain was "sleepwalking towards segregation". If his tenure were to be judged on his record for provoking both left and right alike, it would have to be ruled an outstanding success. Phillips's tenure as EHRC chairman is the longest for any individual in any similar position in the UK. Other Works "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.' I do know what it feels like to have to pin your teenage child to the floor of a speeding car to prevent her throwing herself out of the door, he wrote. We are here to do something which I think is profoundly important to this society. [2], Mark Trevor Phillips was born in Islington, London, the youngest of ten children. 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. There is, as Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain puts it, with considerable understatement, "concern about his ability to take an independent approach from the Home Office on key issues to do with minority groups". Help us build our profile of Asha Aline Francine Bhownagary! But we have moved an incredibly long way on the anti-discrimination front. Two daughters from his first marriage to Asha Bhownagary, a child psychologist. 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. When he returned to London it was to study chemistry at Imperial College. It's politics. Read more about this topic: Trevor Phillips, Im afraid, sir, that I gave up my belief in goblins, witches, personal devils and werewolves at the age of six.John Colton (18861946), Just so hollow and ineffectual, for the most part, is our ordinary conversation. Asha Phillips is a child psychotherapist trained at the Tavistock Clinic. 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. Trevor Phillips was first married in 1981 to Asha Bhownagary. They have two grown-up daughters. [24] Phillips was responding to the growing uproar surrounding proposals to amend counter-terrorism legislation to permit 42 days' detention without charge. 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. It isn't the most important thing any more. "But we want to get them to think about what's happening. "We're not Ofquote," Phillips retorts. 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. 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. If Phillips is sometimes misrepresented or maligned, it is probably unsurprising, for he has to negotiate an inherently delicate line. He joked of Mandelson three years Not that the black community is entirely supportive. 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. If I go into a shop, they know I've come from England because I start looking for the queue. He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1999 Queen's Honors List for his services to journalism. "I was so small that I couldn't see over the parapet. The money will be given to those universities that admit pupils from socially deprived areas. She regularly teaches and lectures at home and abroad. Phillips laughs and shakes his head, more amazed than indignant. 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