Black Adviser To UK Leader Quits Amid Race Report Outcry By Jitendra JOSHI
04/01/21 AT 10:04 AM
Prime Minister Boris Johnson s most senior black adviser has quit, Downing Street said Thursday, a day after a government-commissioned report provoked outrage by saying that structural racism does not exist in Britain.
Samuel Kasumu had been talked out of resigning by ministers in February, after he complained of unbearable tension within Downing Street and said Johnson s Conservative Party was pursuing a politics steeped in division , the BBC reported at the time.
Kasumu, who served as special adviser for civil society and communities, submitted his resignation last week and informed colleagues on Wednesday morning, according to Politico, just as the controversial report by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities (CRED) was released.
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1of20Dr. Mark Ghaly, Secretary, California Health and Human Services, left, inoculates California Gov. Gavin Newsom, right, at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza in Los Angeles Thursday, April 1, 2021. Newsom was vaccinated with the new one-dose Janssen COVID-19 vaccine by Johnson & Johnson.Damian Dovarganes/APShow MoreShow Less
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