Gary Lineker today said he would not have made his comments comparing the Government's Rwanda policy with Nazi Germany if he knew it was going to spark such huge controversy. The BBC suspended the 62-year-old from presenting Match of the Day in March in the wake of his remarks pouring scorn over then home secretary Suella Braverman's migrant boats crackdown.
He wrote on Twitter, now known as X: 'This is just an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people, in language not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s and I'm out of order?' Lineker reflected on the debacle in an interview with men's fashion magazine GQ today in which he says he would not have sent the tweet if he knew what the consequences would have been. His comments caused uproar among many and ignited a huge impartiality row, while his suspension sparked a 'walk-out' from football pundits as they backed the sta
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