Planet Normal: Trevor Phillips on where the media goes wrong when reporting on race

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Trevor Phillips, broadcaster, writer and former chairman of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, is Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan’s latest castaway to Planet Normal. The former Labour candidate for London Mayor tells Liam why guilt obscures media coverage of racial issues, how he knows what it’s like to be randomly stopped by the police, and why he believes parts of the Labour Party just don’t care about winning elections.

Plus, Allison and Liam discuss the devastating knock-on effect of lockdown on cancer treatments, Rishi Sunak’s mini-Budget or “big Economic enchilada”, and enjoy listeners’ stories of a time before health and safety, featuring a homemade army tank!

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His father-in-law is billionaire founder of Indian IT giant, Infosys, NR Narayana Murthy.

Sunak experienced a meteoric rise, first to be selected for the “safest” Conservative seat in the UK, he would later become the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer in under five years.

Brief Biography Here.

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