Trevor Phillips tearfully recalled the death of his daughter in lockdown during the same weekend No10 staff partied. Two days before his daughter died, No10 staff broke a child's swing, wheeled a suitcase of wine into Downing Street and DJ'd in the basement as part of two leaving dos.
The broadcaster fought back tears as he confronted a top Tory chairman on Sky News about the experience he said "thousands of people" could share, The Mirror reports.
Trevor Phillips said that his daughter Sushila followed 'the spirit and letter of the rules' before she died following a 22-year battle with anorexia last April.The 36-year-old passed away the day after Prince Phillip's funeral on April 18, 2021.Lockdown rules at the time dictated people could only gather outdoors, and then only in groups of up to six people.Visibly emotional Mr Phillips, the former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, questioned Tory chairman Oliver Dowden on Sky News.He said he had seen his two daughters outside in the days before Prince Philip's funeral, but "their mother, stepmother and I weren't allowed to meet them together."He added: "We all stuck to the spirit and the letter of the rules.
On the Saturday after watching the funeral of Prince Philip, I went to one of my friends' 70th birthday party."He hired a tent, he has got loads of friends, but he hired a tent just for the six of us so that we could sit outside."He stuck to the spirit and the letter of the rules."At that dinner, I get a call, my daughter has collapsed.
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