The outspoken social commentator Gary Lineker has hinted he will avoid being suspended by the BBC following his comments on the Government's controversial asylum policy.
The 62-year-old Match of the Day presenter caused outrage among some after he retweeted a Home Office video on its new Illegal Migration Bill, describing it as "beyond awful". Lineker referenced the type of language used in 1930s Germany during the build-up to the Second World War.
He said: "There is no huge influx [of refugees]. We take far fewer refugees than other major European countries. This is just an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s."
