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'White flight' from city centres is getting worse, says equality chief STEVE DOUGHTY White flight - the retreat of the white middle
classes from city centres - is getting worse, the Government's race
relations chief said yesterday.
The admission by Trevor Phillips was the first time a senior Whitehall figure has used the phrase. Mr Phillips, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, backed the decision last week of the Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, to warn of the spread of "no-go areas" for non-Muslims. He told Radio 4's Today programme: "There are areas in which there is no contact or very little contact between different ethnic and cultural groups.
"White flight is accelerating, schools are becoming more segregated. I think that the Bishop of Rochester was right to raise this." The phenomenon has been seen in northern cities with a lot of Muslims, London and towns such as Reading and Bournemouth. Sir Andrew Green, of the Migrationwatch think-tank, said: "This is another courageous contribution from Trevor Phillips. Massive levels of immigration are a significant factor." Mr Phillips has condemned multiculturalism at the expense of social cohesion.
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