Roger Scruton has reportedly been sacked as a Government housing advisor following 'unacceptable' comments in a magazine interview.
Mr Scruton repeated widely-known anti-Semitic tropes about philanthropist George Soros .
And he said “each Chinese person is a kind of replica of the next one.”
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said: "Professor Sir Roger Scruton has been dismissed as chairman of the Building Better Building Beautiful Commission with immediate effect, following his unacceptable comments.
“A new chair will be appointed by the Secretary of State, to take this important work forward, in due course.”
Five months ago, when Mr Scruton made similar comments, Housing Secretary James Brokensire accused people raising concerns about his remarks of "misinformed, ill-judged and very personal attacks".
Asked what had changed since November, a Number 10 spokesperson said: "He was appointed because of his expertise in the built environment but his comments are clearly distracting from the important work of the Commission and it is no longer right for him to act as a Government adviser.”
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Mr Scruton's comments included a defence of the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory portrayal of Mr Soros as a Jewish puppet-master.
He told the New Statesman: "Anybody who doesn't think that there's a Soros empire in Hungary has not observed the facts."
He went on to say the idea that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a long-time friend of Mr Scruton, was anti-Semitic was "nonsense."
Mr Scruton repeated his claim that Islamophobia was a propaganda word "invented by the Muslim Brotherhood in order to stop discussion of a major issue."
Turning to the people of China, he said: "They're 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."
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A Number 10 source said Mr Scruton was not speaking for the government when he made the comments, but added: “I’m sure they will be looked at.”
Jeremy Corbyn ’s spokesman said: “Anybody in a public position who makes those kinds of remarks should not be in that position.”
A spokesperson for the British Council of Muslims said: "While we welcome the action taken by the government, there are serious questions to answer as to why Mr Scruton was appointed in the first place.
"It is not the first time he has expressed Islamophobic views.
"This is yet another indication that the Conservative Party has yet to get a grip on Islamophobia.
"Nothing short of an independent inquiry will do."
