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The previous UK equality watchdog chief, Trevor Phillips’ has been suspended from the Labour Occasion over allegations of Islamophobia.
The Occasions newspaper reported the anti-racism campaigner is being investigated over previous feedback courting again years.
Mr Phillips, ex-chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Fee, stated Labour was in peril of collapsing right into a “brutish, authoritarian cult”.
Labour stated it takes complaints about Islamophobia “extraordinarily critically”.
A spokeswoman added: “[The complaints] are totally investigated in step with our guidelines and procedures, and any applicable disciplinary motion is taken.”
Mr Phillips was amongst 24 public figures who wrote to the Guardian final yr declaring their refusal to vote for Labour due to its affiliation with anti-Semitism.
He might be expelled from the celebration for alleged prejudice in opposition to Muslims.
Mr Phillips has been suspended pending investigation over remarks, together with expressing considerations about Pakistani Muslim males sexually abusing kids in northern British cities, based on the Occasions.
It says the criticism additionally covers his feedback in regards to the failure of some Muslims to put on poppies for Remembrance Sunday and the sympathy proven by some in an opinion ballot in direction of the “motives” of the Charlie Hebdo attackers.
‘A type of racism’
The paper stated lots of his statements are years-old however that Labour’s common secretary Jennie Formby suspended him as a matter of urgency to “shield the celebration’s fame”.
Writing within the Occasions, Mr Phillips stated it might be tragic if, on the very second the nation wanted an efficient opposition, the nation needed to endure the spectacle of Labour collapsing into “a brutish authoritarian cult.”
He stated he was a sufferer of Labour’s adoption of a definition of Islamophobia as a “type of racism” hostile to “Muslimness”.
Mr Phillips added: “Nobody inside or exterior the Labour Occasion has ever recommended that I’ve damaged any guidelines.”
Mr Phillips was the founding chair of the EHRC, which is at the moment investigating anti-Semitism within the Labour Occasion, when it launched in 2006.
He has beforehand made documentaries about race and multiculturalism, and now chairs Index on Censorship – a gaggle that campaigns for freedom of expression.