Gary Lineker to step down from BBC Match of the Day presenting role amid Twitter controversy
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.
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?”Lineker has stood by his tweet in the following days amid calls from members of government that the BBC speak to him about their impartiality.
The statement read: ""When it comes to leading our football and sports coverage, Gary is second to none. Braverman insisted that Lineker's comment 'diminishes the unspeakable tragedy' of the Holocaust, calling the comparison between her language and that of Nazi Germany 'lazy and unhelpful'.
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