Merseyrail has ordered the removal of Morrissey posters plastered on its services and stations after an angry commuter complained about the singer's controversial views.

The former Smiths frontman is advertising his new solo album, California Son, which is due to be released on Friday.

However, his support for far-right parties and leaders have made him a controversial figure - leaving Merseyrail scrambling to get the posters removed after one Liverpool commuter voiced his offence.

Jack Dotchin, 32, was taking a Southport service into Moorfields this morning when he spotted the posters - and he wasn't happy.

The Toxteth resident said: "[The things Morrissey has said] offend me and a lot of other people. He's very far right these days, going on about immigrants and being pseudo-racist.

"It's just strange to think Merseyrail, being a public service for the people, is advertising someone with his views.

"It's just pictures of Morrissey with his new album. He's not doing anything inappropriate but his name is a by-name for questionable views at the moment.

"Lots of record stores are refusing to stock it so I'm not the only one to say it."

Morrissey has denied being a racist on multiple occasions, telling NME in 2018 that it was "just a way of changing the subject".

However, the world's oldest record store, Spillers Records in Cardiff, refused to stock the album due to Morrissey's support for the far-right political party For Britain , including wearing a badge with the party’s logo when performing on a US talk show.

Anne Marie Waters, the leader of For Britain, has described Islam as evil and as “a culture that does not fit with ours”.

She thanked Morrissey for raising the profile of the party, saying: “I can tell you that the traffic to our website exploded with the story breaking of you wearing the For Britain button badge.”

The How Soon Is Now singer has become increasingly controversial for a string of remarks, including his support for EDL founder Tommy Robinson in the wake of his sentencing for contempt of court.

Jack called Merseyrail to ask why they thought it was appropriate to feature the adverts - but was told posters across the service are placed by ad agency Exterion Media.

Merseyrail told the ECHO : "Advertising on the Merseyrail networ k is managed by an external third party, who are currently in the process of removing these posters.

"Processes are in place for Merseyrail to approve any potentially contentious material prior to it appearing on the network, however due to the nature of this advertisement it did not reach a level of verification.

" Merseyrail will work the third party supplier to improve this process in the future.

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“Any content used within advertising on the Merseyrail network does not reflect the organisation’s values and we apologise for any offence the publication of these posters may have caused.”

The ECHO contacted Exterion who declined to comment.