Conservative academic Sir Roger Scruton has been sacked as head of a government housing body following comments about Islam, China and George Soros.
The philosopher was appointed as the unpaid chair of the Building Beautiful architecture Commission in November.
He has now been dismissed after claiming Islamophobia was "a propaganda word" and "each Chinese person is a kind of replica of the next one".
Downing Street said the comments were "deeply offensive".
Sir Roger's appointment to head the new body was criticised at the time by Labour, who said his past comments on race and sexuality made him unsuitable to hold the post. [BBC] Read more
