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Government advisor Roger Scruton has been sacked after using “the language of white supremacists” in an interview.

Sir Scruton made controversial comments about George Soros, Chinese people and Islam in an interview with the New Statesman.

He had been chairing the Ministry of Housing's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission but was sacked by Secretary of State James Brokenshire on Tuesday.

During the interview, he said: “Anybody who doesn’t think that there’s a Soros empire in Hungary has not observed the facts.”

The philosopher also said the Chinese were “creating robots out of their own people… each Chinese person is a kind of replica of the next one and that is a very frightening thing.”

The Government dismissed calls to fire the academic as a housing adviser last November after it emerged Sir Roger had said Islamophobia was a "propaganda word" and described homosexuality as "not normal".

Sir Roger came under renewed criticism after commenting on the controversy.

The New Statesman America quoted Sir Roger as repeating his claim that Islamophobia was a propaganda word "invented by the Muslim Brotherhood in order to stop discussion of a major issue".

Sir Roger said it was "nonsense" for critics to accuse Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban of anti-Semitism or Islamophobia.

He said: "The Hungarians were extremely alarmed by the sudden invasion of huge tribes of Muslims from the Middle East."

Labour’s shadow Women and Equalities minister Dawn Butler said he should “never have been appointed” but should have been sacked when “his horrific comments about rape, homosexuality, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism came to light.”

She added: "These comments are despicable and invoke the language of white supremacists."

A spokesman for the Ministry of Housing, Community and Local Government said: “Professor Sir Roger Scruton has been dismissed as Chairman of the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission with immediate effect, following his unacceptable comments.

“A new chair will be appointed by the Secretary of State, to take this important work forward, in due course.”