Sky News host Trevor Phillips has been knighted for his work on equality and human rights.
The broadcaster, 68, who featured Trevor Phillips on Sundays in 2021 and 2022, received his knighthood from the Prince of Wales at Windsor Castle on Tuesday.
Sir Trevor stood in place of Sophy Ridge presenting Sky’s Sunday political agenda during the coronavirus pandemic.
On one show, he tried to hold back tears when he questioned Oliver Dowden, the Tory party chairman at the time, about the lockout parties in Downing Street.
He said that two days after the Number 10 employee drank a suitcase of wine at a COVID-restricted leave party, his daughter Sushila passed away after a long battle with anorexia.
“We all follow the spirit and the rules,” he told the MP.
“Does the prime minister really understand why people are angry?”
Mr. Dowden, now prime minister of the Principality of Lancaster, replied: “I know how much you have suffered during these times.”
Rishi Sunak, prime minister at the time, and Boris Johnson, prime minister at the time, were both fined for participating in limited-time Westminster gatherings.
The TV station was knighted by the Prince of Wales
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Sir Trevor was chosen by Tony Blair, then prime minister, to head the Racial Equality Commission in 2003, and to chair his successor, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, from 2007 to 2012. .
He was chairman of the London Council from 2000 to 2003 following an unsuccessful bid to be Labour’s candidate for mayor of London.
Among his other roles are head of current affairs at London Weekend Television, chairman of the John Lewis Partnership Council of Partners and head of the Runnymede Trust, an independent racial equality think-tank. create.
Prior to that, he received an OBE in 1999 for press broadcast services.
Others honored Tuesday were Olympic swimmer Adam Peaty, soccer player Rio Ferdinand and fantasy author Sir Ian Livingstone.
