The Foreign Secretary has suggested Gary Lineker is 'desperate to gain attention' and needs to 'study the history books' after criticism of the government's migrant plans.
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has suggested Gary Lineker needs to study the "history books" after comparing language around the Government's asylum policy to 1930s Germany.Mr Cleverly said: "There are some people desperate to gain attention by using deeply offensive and inappropriate language about this and I would gently suggest they use their history books a little bit more carefully.
The conversation comes after the sports pundit was at the the centre of an impartiality row after criticising the Government's "cruel" plans to tackle small boat crossings of the Channel.Sunak to use Macron meeting to push for France to 'go further' in stopping migrants crossing English Channel Home Secretary Suella Braverman said she found the comments "offensive" because her husband is Jewish.
"My children are therefore directly descendant from people who were murdered in gas chambers during the Holocaust, she said. "To kind of throw out those kind of flippant analogies diminishes the unspeakable tragedy that millions of people went through and I don't think anything that is happening in the UK today can come close to what happened in the Holocaust.
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