'I'm a cultural Christian', declares Richard Dawkins, the world's most famous atheist

Richard Dawkins – one of the world’s most famous atheists – has declared himself to be a “cultural Christian”.

The author of The God Delusion, a 2006 best-selling attack on the existence of God, made his remarks in an interview with Rachel Johnson for LBC radio in which they discussed how the Muslim season of Ramadan was being celebrated in Oxford Street, London, instead of the Christian feast of Easter.

Mr Dawkins, 83, said: “I do think we are culturally a Christian country. I call myself a cultural Christian.”