Gary Lineker today said he would not have made his comments comparing the Government's Rwanda policy with Nazi Germany if he knew it was going to spark such huge controversy.
The BBC suspended the 62-year-old from presenting Match of the Day in March in the wake of his remarks pouring scorn over then home secretary Suella Braverman's migrant boats crackdown.
He wrote on Twitter, now known as X: 'This is just an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people, in language not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s and I'm out of order?