Gary Lineker doubles down on his Tory attacks

No red card for Gary Lineker, it seems. The Sun reports this afternoon that the outspoken TV presenter is staying put after comments he made comparing the rhetoric around the government’s new illegal migration policy to 1930s Germany. It appears Lineker has avoided even so much as a slap on the wrist, with a BBC source claiming that:

We have spoken to Gary and he won’t face any disciplinary action. From our perspective the situations has been resolved now and we want him to get back to what he’s best at, which is being a brilliant sports presenter.

The Beeb’s support seems to have only emboldened Lineker in his attacks on the Tory government. Following Penny Mordaunt’s comments at the despatch box earlier, Lineker took to Twitter to declare: ‘Thank you for mentioning me in your clumsy analogy. I’m just happy to have been better in the six yard box than you are at the dispatch box.