Gary Lineker has quit the BBC over the anti-Semitism row that erupted after he shared a social-media post featuring a rat.

At midday - almost a week after Gary Lineker reposted a video about Zionism that included an illustration of a rat, historically used as an antisemitic insult - it was announced he is leaving the BBC sooner than planned:

This isn’t Lineker’s first controversy. In 2023, the BBC said it had had a ‘frank conversation'” with the star after he criticized the government’s asylum policy, comparing the language to “not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s.”