GMB viewers left squirming as Richard Madeley probes Gary Lineker

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Good Morning Britain viewers were left cringing this morning after watching Richard Madeley press Gary Lineker on his March suspension from the BBC, with some describing the interview as "painful".

Gary appeared on the ITV show via video link to speak about his new game show Sitting on a Fortune, however Richard — who was hosting GMB alongside Susanna Reid this morning — took the opportunity to ask the football pundit about his comments on the government's use of language around migration. "I disagreed with what you actually said which was essentially to compare the British government today in 2023 to the Nazi government, the dictatorship, in the early 1930s, as you spoke about Britain's immigration policy," Richard said. "Looking back, do you think that was a fair comparison?" he asked, with Gary responding: "Already you've misrepresented what I said and that’s what happened because of the Daily Mail headline which caused this furrow in the first place. "I didn't compare the government to the Nazis, I didn't talk about the Holocaust, I didn't do any of that.

All I said was, some of the language is not dissimilar to that used back in the thirties in Germany and there is a substantial difference in that." After adding that the story is "water under the bridge now" and that it was "disproportionate", Richard tried to question him further on the issue with Gary responding: "Again you're using the term about Nazis and trying to connect it with the government." "I was talking about some of the language that is not dissimilar and that is very much the case.

We use the words ‘swarm’, we use the word ‘invasion’, we use the word ‘rapists’ - all these for people who are fleeing persecution, fleeing war, awful circumstances. " Fans.