Lineker to step back from presenting Match of the Day

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Gary Lineker is to step back from presenting Match of the Day until an agreement is reached on his social media use - BBC statement.

It follows an impartiality row over comments he made criticising the government's new asylum policy.

In a tweet, the presenter had compared the language used by the government to set out its plan to "that used by Germany in the 30s".

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