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Labour frontbencher Lisa Nandy has claimed that Gary Lineker was not referring to the Nazis in his controversial migrant tweets.
The Match Of The Day presenter, 62, recently plunged the BBC into a civil war between its talent and management over an impartiality row.
Commenting on the Government's new Illegal Migration Bill, Lineker branded the small boats announcement as an 'immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s'.
However, Ms Nandy - the Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities - has argued that he was not likening the Government to the Nazis.
'What people say Gary Lineker said is very different from what Gary Lineker actually said', she told Sky News.
Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy speaks at a Labour Party annual conference in Liverpool
Gary Lineker at the Etihad Stadium yesterday where he made his return to television for the first time since his impartiality row with the BBC over controversial migrant tweets
