‘People have already forgotten Jo Cox’: Samuel Kasumu on why he quit as No 10’s race adviser

He resigned amid the fallout from a government report that dismissed institutional racism. In his first interview since, he says some ministers are waging a culture war - and endangering the country

• Johnson's former race adviser accuses Tories of inflaming culture wars

Samuel Kasumu is worried about what is to come. The former race adviser to No 10 has watched, dismayed, as commentators and members of the government - whom he believes should know better - engage in a bitter culture war. He warns that the consequences for the UK will be severe.

There are some people in the government who feel like the right way to win is to pick a fight on the culture war and to exploit division," he says. I worry about that. It seems like people have very short memories and they've already forgotten Jo Cox." Kasumu believes the man who killed her may have been radicalised and worked into a frenzy" by the narratives in certain newspapers that are pushed by media commentators.