2021-04-01 15:36:22 GMT2021-04-01 23:36:22(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
LONDON, April 1 (Xinhua) -- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's senior adviser on race is to resign amid the intense debate over Downing Street's controversial report on racial disparities in Britain, local media reported Thursday.
Samuel Kasumu, Johnson's special adviser for civil society and communities, will leave his role in May and has informed colleagues of his decision on Wednesday, sources confirmed to British media.
The news came one day after the British government released the controversial report which is widely accused of trying to downplay structural racism in Britain.
But a Downing Street spokesperson said Kasumu's departure had been planning "for several months" and was not linked to the report by the government's Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities.