Gary Lineker is said to be on the verge of an early exit from the BBC, with the Match of the Day host's position at the corporation now 'untenable' following a social media post

Lineker’s £1.35m position is said to have become untenable after the latest controversy that angered BBC colleagues, insiders say.

The video Lineker re-posted then deleted featured a cartoon rat, an antisemitic trope that harks back to 1930s Germany. The rat was overlaid on an explainer of the Israel-Gaza war presented by Canadian-Palestinian lawyer Diana Buttu. Screenshots showed it being flagged up on X as hate speech.