Scruton ‘could return’ to Building Beautiful Commission

Roger Scruton

Housing secretary offers olive branch to sacked former chair

Roger Scruton could return to the government’s Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission more than three months after he was sacked as its chair by housing secretary James Brokenshire.

Scruton’s was rapidly removed from the body – tasked with finding ways to improve the quality of, and public support for, new development – following a magazine interview that portrayed him as having made controversial comments about Islamophobia and antisemitism.

It subsequently emerged that the New Statesman had misrepresented some of Scruton’s responses and Brokenshire admitted that he had regrets about the way the situation was handled.

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