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 was suspended by the United Kingdom's BBC as he had made a political comment deemed inappropriate for a presenter. The matter was raised in the British Parliament. The BBC's Match of the Day programme ran in a shorter form than usual for one edition with no commentary as colleagues at the BBC withdrew from presenting football programmes for the weekend until Lineker was reinstated.