Boris Johnson’s most senior black adviser to step down in Might

The prime minister’s most senior black adviser is to step down from his function in Quantity 10.

Samuel Kasumu will go away his put up as particular adviser for civil society and communities in Might.

The information comes a day after a government-backed evaluation of racial disparities in Britain was revealed.

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The Fee on Race and Ethnic Disparities’ 258-page report was criticised for being “steeped in denial”.

However Quantity 10 sources rejected studies that Mr Kasumu’s resignation, first reported by Politico, is linked to this.

In response to Politico, he informed colleagues of his choice on Tuesday morning, simply because the findings of the report have been launched.

Requested if she knew something about Mr Kasumu’s resignation, expertise minister Gillian Keegan Occasions Radio: “No, I do not even know who he’s.”

The fee’s report, which explored ethnic and race disparities inside training, employment, the legal justice system and well being, argued that the UK is not a rustic “the place the system is intentionally rigged towards ethnic minorities”.

It mentioned the UK “ought to be considered a mannequin for different white-majority nations” though it can’t be thought of “a put up racial society”.

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“Too usually ‘racism’ is the catch-all clarification, and may be merely implicitly accepted quite than explicitly examined,” the report argued.

“The proof exhibits that geography, household affect, socio-economic background, tradition and faith have extra vital affect on life possibilities than the existence of racism.”

The report argues there may be an “more and more strident type of anti-racism pondering that seeks to clarify all minority drawback via the prism of white discrimination”, which diverts consideration away from different components behind disparities of consequence.

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It criticised what it mentioned was the “complicated” means the time period “institutional racism” has been utilized, arguing it ought to solely be used when there may be confirmed deep-seated, systemic racism current and never as a “catch-all” time period for any microaggression.

Labour’s shadow justice secretary David Lammy mentioned black Britons have been being “gaslighted”, whereas fellow MP Diane Abbott informed Sky Information the report was “extra about politics than the coverage” and “taking us again within the argument for racial justice, not taking us ahead”.