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Gary Lineker & Piers Morgan in Brexit Twitter feud - refereed by Ricky Gervais

The ongoing Twitter exchanges between former England striker Gary Lineker and television personality Piers Morgan continued on Monday evening, with the pair once again bickering over the result of the United Kingdom's decision to leave the European Union.

The debate began off the back of a tweet posted by Lineker, in which he joked that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson should have given the public a vote on what the PM should have called his newly rescued puppy – a Jack Russell-cross named Dilyn.

“Thought the least the Prime Minister could have done was allow us to vote on the puppy’s name,” the Match of the Day host said, seemingly taking a dig at the fact Johnson was installed as the leader of the Britain without the public having voted for him following Theresa May's resignation.