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Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s chief strategist and a former far-right website boss, has been removed from his role on the National Security Council.

The former Breitbart CEO was appointed to the committee in January, and was the first White house political staffer to hold a seat on the committee.

Bannon is one of the President's closest advisors and is understood to have been the driving force behind his Muslim Travel Ban policy.

His appointment was met with uproar in the US, after he apparently bumped the country’s highest ranking military officer from his regular seat in meetings.

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Joseph Dunford, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as National Intelligence Director John McConnell were not on the list of permanent members when the initial list was released.

Following criticism in the media, they were both reinstated in a subsequent draft.

Trump’s Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert’s role on the council has been downgraded, and his new National Security Adviser, H R McMaster has been given responsibility of setting the agenda for meetings.

Bloomberg News cited a White House official saying Bannon had been given a place on the council in part to monitor Trump’s former National Security Advisor, Mike Flynn.

Flynn was forced to resign from his job after it emerged he’d misled the Vice President over the extent of his conversations with Russia’s Ambassador to the US before Trump took office.

The official reportedly told Bloomberg Bannon had never attended an NSC meeting, and would no longer be needed now Flynn wasn’t in the picture.

Bannon, 62, is a skilled propagandist and darling of the so-called ‘alt-right’ - a term used to describe a movement of racist, anti-Muslim and white supremacist people on social media, which got behind Trump’s candidacy.

Prior to Trump’s election, Bannon had no experience in public service or national security.