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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Jake Polden

Gary Lineker forced to delete Ukraine crisis tweet after intense backlash

Gary Lineker has deleted a tweet labelling Britain's spending on a nuclear deterrent "madness" amid the crisis in Ukraine.

The Match of the Day host followed up his post with an explanation on why he deleted the tweet, admitting it was "ambiguous and therefore misinterpreted".

Lineker's initial tweet posted at 11.38am on Thursday, after news broke of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, read: "All those trillions spent on a so-called nuclear deterrent, madness."

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