Trevor Michael Thomas Kavanagh (born on 19 January 1943) is an English columnist and previous political proofreader of The Sun. 

Early life and profession 

Kavanagh was instructed at Reigate Grammar School prior to passing on school at 17 to work for papers in Surrey and later Hereford. 

In 1965, he emigrated to Australia, dealing with a few papers. After a short stretch back in the United Kingdom working for the Bristol Evening Post, Kavanagh got back to Australia to work for the Sydney Daily Mirror (in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. stable) on the political work area. 

Profession 

In 1978, he got back to the UK forever, taking some work on the news work area of The Sun, and afterward as a modern journalist in 1980. He was delegated as the paper's political manager in 1983. 

In January 2004, Kavanagh guaranteed an enormous scoop. An anonymous source called Kavanagh with subtleties of the Hutton Inquiry the prior night it was authoritatively distributed.

Kavanagh was given precise subtleties of the report and distributed them in front of the authority discharge. He was anyway less exact on 4 June 2009.

Talking on BBC 5Live he attested that Gordon Brown would be out of office the following week. In a matter of seconds subsequently, he was named as the eighth most powerful individual in the British media – behind his owner Murdoch, however in front of his manager, Rebekah Wade. 

He covered his last UK General Election as a political manager in May 2005. In December 2005, it was reported that he was to turn into a partner proofreader of The Sun in January. His replacement as political proofreader was agent, George Pascoe-Watson.[

Kavanagh joined the leading group of the Independent Press Standards Organization (IPSO) in December 2015. In February 2017, the IPSO observed that a section by Kavanagh distributed in The Sun about purportedly bogus displaced person claims was verifiably erroneous. The mediation by IPSO portrayed Kavanagh's mistakes as making "a fundamentally deceptive idea." 

In August 2017, The Sun distributed a segment by Kavanagh which addressed what moves British society should make to manage "The Muslim Problem".

Kavanagh refered to an assessment piece by Labor Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities Sarah Champion MP a few days beforehand as an explanation that it was "presently satisfactory" to depict Muslims as a "particular rather than social issue".

Sean O'Grady of The Independent expressed that the segment utilized language suggestive of Nazi publicity and Nazi expressions. A

joint protest was made to IPSO by the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Tell MAMA, and Faith Matters. An assertion by the gatherings said "The printing of the expression 'The Muslim Problem' – especially with the capitalization and italics for accentuation – in a public paper starts a risky trend, and looks back to the utilization of the expression 'The Jewish Problem somewhat recently."

A get party gathering of more than 100 MPs from the Conservatives, Labor, the Liberal Democrats, and the Greens in this way marked a letter to the manager of The Sun requesting activity over the section. The letter expressed the MPs "were genuinely offended by the disdain and extremism" in Kavanagh's segment. 

Kavanagh left the leading body of IPSO toward the finish of December 2017, two years into a three-year contract. 

Individual life 

Kavanagh is hitched and at present lives in London. He has two children and three grandkids.