Gary Lineker is stepping back from presenting Match of the Day over a row over the BBC's impartiality terms, the broadcaster confirmed on Friday.
Lineker has come under fire for comparing the language used by the government in their asylum plans to 'that used by Germany in the 30s' in a tweet on Tuesday. The former England striker said the policy set out by Home Secretary Suella Braverman was 'beyond awful'.
In a reply to someone else responding, he then said: “There is no huge influx. 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, and I’m out of order?”
