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BBC meltdown: The timeline of how chaos unfolded around Gary Lineker's tweets which led to him being asked to step aside as Match of the Day host

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It has been a week of chaos for the BBC after Gary Lineker was asked to step aside from presenting Saturday's edition of Match of the Day following his tweets this week.

The former Leicester and Tottenham striker, who has presented Match of the Day since 1999, compared the language used to launch a new Government crackdown on migrants arriving across the Channel in small boats to 1930s Germany. Lineker's tweet was found to breach BBC impartiality rules.

It has been a week of chaos for the BBC in the aftermath of Gary Lineker's tweets

Tuesday, March 7

Gary Lineker tweets in response to the Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s plan to ‘stop the boats’.