Chair of the UK government's Building Better Building Beautiful Commission Roger Scruton has been fired for calling Chinese people "robots" and claiming Islamaphobia was "invented by the Muslim Brotherhood".
Scruton was dismissed as head of the housing commission following the comments.
"Professor Sir Roger Scruton has been dismissed as chairman of the Building Better Building Beautiful Commission with immediate effect, following his unacceptable comments," said a spokesperson for the ministry of housing.
"A new chair will be appointed by the secretary of state, to take this important work forward, in due course."
Government advisor called Chinese people "replicas"
Talking about China's ascendancy as a global power the writer and philosopher, who received a knighthood in 2016, said the Chinese government was turning its people into "robots". "Each Chinese person is a kind of replica of the next one and that is a very frightening thing," Scruton said.

He also reiterated his views on the antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jewish billionaire George Soros is running an empire in Hungary, which caused MPs to call for his dismissal when he was appointed last year.
"Anybody who doesn?t think that there?s a Soros empire in Hungary has not observed the facts," he said.
Scruton made the controversial comments in an interview published on the New Statesman website.
His slurs also included claiming ...