Milo Yiannopoulos loses book deal over child abuse comments

Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has had a £200,000 book deal cancelled, after video footage emerged that appeared to show him endorsing sex between "younger boys" and older men.

"After careful consideration, Simon & Schuster and its Threshold Editions imprint have cancelled publication of Dangerous by Milo Yiannopoulos," said his publisher.

In the recording, "Yiannopoulos specifically referred to relationships between 13-year-old boys and older men", says ABC News.

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He reportedly made the comments during an episode of the Drunken Peasants podcast last year.

News of the cancelled book deal came just hours after organisers of this week's Conservative Political Action Conference withdrew their invitation for Yiannopoulos to speak at the event.

Matt Schlapp, the group's chairman, said: "Due to the revelation of an offensive video in the past 24 hours condoning paedophilia, the American Conservative Union has decided to rescind the invitation."

In a lengthy statement on Facebook, Yiannopoulos, a senior editor at conservative website Breitbart, denied he supported paedophilia, saying there were "selectively edited videos doing the rounds, as part of a co-ordinated effort to discredit me from establishment Republicans, that suggest I am soft on the subject".

His colleagues at Breitbart have reportedly threatened to quit if he is not fired, says The Guardian.