A Brief Introduction to the Speaker, Chewel Phillips

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Chever phillips is a director of the barbican art centre and vice president of the royal television society. He was chair of the equality and human rights commission between two thousand and three and two thousand and 12. Chewel: I am the tenth of ten children of an immigrant family. Came here in 19 50. We are descendants of slaves, including a woman,. earliest known member of our family. She was called happy presumably some slave owners idea of a great joke.

Is identity politics tearing society apart or is it a call for social justice for everyone? That's the theme of this week's Sunday Debate. For the motion were journalist and author of 'We Need To Talk About Kevin', Lionel Shriver and Founding chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Trevor Phillips. Against the motion were Labour politician David Lammy and Guardian journalist, the late Dawn Foster. The chair was Kamal Ahmed former editorial director of the BBC.

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