Views
The BBC has said that Phillips "is regarded as one of the media's leading right-wing voices" and a "controversial" columnist. She began her career on the liberal left with The Guardian. Her drift to the political right has been mirrored by her journalistic career: she now writes for the Daily Mail, and Nick Cohen wrote in 2011 that she has become vilified by The Guardian, while Phillips herself stated in 2006 that her views are often misrepresented by her former newspaper.
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