Sir Roger Scruton: No. 10 adviser sacked over race comments

Philosopher loses government role over ‘deeply offensive’ views on George Soros, Islam and the Chinese

Roger Scruton
Sir Roger Scruton was appointed chair of the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission last November
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The government’s housing tsar has been sacked after making a series of “offensive and unacceptable” comments branded racist and anti-Semitic.

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