Sir Roger Scruton has been sacked as chair of the government's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission by housing secretary James Brokenshire.
The sacking follows an interview in the New Statesman in which he made controversial comments about George Soros, Chinese people and Islam.
In the interview he was reported as saying: “Anybody who doesn’t think that there’s a Soros empire in Hungary has not observed the facts” and that Islamophobia was a propaganda word "invented by the Muslim Brotherhood in order to stop discussion of a major issue."
He was also reported to have said that the Chinese were “creating robots out of their own people… each Chinese person is a kind of replica of the next one and that is a very frightening thing.”
