Britain needs to learn to accommodate those who hold traditional views on marriage and gender, a former equality chief has said. Trevor Phillips, who led the country’s Equality and Human Rights Commission said Britain risks “failing the acid test of a democracy” in how it mistreats those who believe in marriage as between one man and one woman and those who oppose gender ideology. Phillips made his comments during a television documentary, ‘Has Political Correctness Gone Mad?’, which heard from various individuals who spoke anecdotally of how voicing traditional beliefs in Britain now put people at risk of abuse. Phillips, who stepped down from his equality role in 2012 has acknowledged that he has begun to question his own views over the years.