Trumped-up charge

FORMeR chair of the equality and human Rights Commission Trevor Phillips was, and continues to be, the credible voice of reason in an increasingly misled and muddled maelstrom of ‘wokeness’ surrounding race and gender. God help us if he, of all people, is accused of any form of ‘. . . ism’!

The accusation against him and subsequent suspension of his Labour Party membership is Orwellian in its idiocy and lack of transparency.

The charge that he expressed worries about Muslim men of Pakistani heritage grooming and raping young, white, disadvantaged (and thus vulnerable) girls in towns such as Rotherham, concerns a fact, not an opinion, which shamefully was not addressed by police and social workers at the time for fear of being called racist.

This charge against Mr Phillips is appallingly wrong, unjust and hypocritical — particularly in the shadow of Labour’s recent antiSemitism fiasco.

The fact that none of the new Labour leadership contenders will go on record with a statement on this embarrassing debacle confirms what I have always known: they are not fit to run a car boot sale, let alone the most important company we have — our country. Fight them all the way, Trevor.

Zoe BarTLeTT, London W9. TReVOR PhILLIPS is being booted out of Labour not for ‘Islamophobic’ comments — made years ago and which were mild in the extreme — but for daring to vote against the party over its lack of action towards anti- Semitism and for criticising Jeremy Corbyn.

Labour is cleansing itself of any dissent from its hard-Left line.

M. hiLDer, Weymouth, Dorset. hOW depressing that the Labour Party’s ruling clique can seek to expel Trevor Phillips for daring to speak his mind on vital issues. What a state this once-great party is in. And how dangerous is the catch-all cult of ‘Islamophobia’, intended to silence free speech.

aLan kiPPs, hadleigh, essex.