Lord Woolley: ‘I feel anger, despair and above all sadness’

The prime minister’s senior adviser on ethnic minorities, Samuel Kasumu, will be stepping down in May. He had previously handed in his resignation in February, before retracting it. His announcement comes after the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities review said the UK was not deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities'. Downing Street has rejected suggestions his departure was linked to the findings. Lord Woolley, Simon Woolley, founder of Operation Black Vote and newly elected principal of Homerton College, Cambridge, told Today programme’s Mishal Husain why he felt “anger, despair and above all sadness” over the report’s conclusions.