Former BBC One host Jason Manford has backed sports star Gary Lineker after the football legend's comparison between the government's new Illegal Migration Bill and Nazi Germany.
The Match of the Day presenter, 62, had retweeted a Home Office video on its new Illegal Migration Bill and described it as "beyond awful", referring to the language used by the Nazis in Germany during that period.
Lineker has refused to delete the tweet, which brought claims against impartiality as a BBC employee, but he has since hinted that he will escape suspension over it.
