During March, the BBC took its best-known sports presenter off-air after he criticized the government’s asylum policy on his personal Twitter account.

Gary Lineker, a former England soccer captain, tweeted on March 7 the government’s plans to ban asylum seekers and economic migrants who arrived on small boats from settling in Britain was “immeasurably cruel” and said the language being used was “not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s.”

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