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It has been a week of chaos for the BBC after Gary Lineker was asked to step aside from presenting Saturday's edition of Match of the Day following his tweets this week.
The former Leicester and Tottenham striker, who has presented Match of the Day since 1999, compared the language used to launch a new Government crackdown on migrants arriving across the Channel in small boats to 1930s Germany. Lineker's tweet was found to breach BBC impartiality rules.
It has been a week of chaos for the BBC in the aftermath of Gary Lineker's tweets
Tuesday, March 7
Gary Lineker tweets in response to the Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s plan to ‘stop the boats’. At 2.20pm, he writes on the migrant crisis: ‘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.’
Wednesday, March 8
The Daily Mail reveals that BBC bosses will rebuke Lineker for his political bias, with corporation sources saying ‘it’s clear that
