POINTS OF DISORDER #2

BIGOT Roger Scruton is the oddest choice as an adviser by mildermannered Housing Secretary James Brokenshire.

I was reminded that, 16 years ago, I exposed the conservative philosopher secretly asking Japan Tobacco International for £5,500 a month to plant sly pro-smoking pieces in newspapers and magazines. He lost a Financial Times column and the Wall Street Journal dropped him.

Scruton’s anti-Jewish and Islamophobic past comments should rule him out, whatever his denials. Did No 10 foist him on Brokenshire to appease Right-whingers?