Roger Scruton has been booted off the government panel tasked with building public support for new homes because of controversial comments on Islamophobia and antisemitism.

Scruton was appointed to chair the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s (MHCLG) Building Better, Building Beautiful commission last autumn, and had been due to issue his final report later this year.

But in a statement yesterday MHCLG confirmed that housing secretary James Brokenshire had taken the step of removing the 75-year-old philosopher from the role.

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