Woke now owns the BBC in its entirety – Lineker reinstatement means that as long as what you say supports the Woke Cult agenda you are fine – say anything else and you’re gone. Paying the licence fee is feeding a monster and paying Lineker £1.35 million a year for the easiest presenting job in TV

Gary Lineker was today begged by the BBC to return to hosting Match of the Day with no further punishment – or new bars on his tweeting – after bosses backed down over his anti-Tory posts and even offered him an apology for the fiasco.

In an extraordinary capitulation just 72 hours after taking him off air, Director General Tim Davie said sorry and agreed a peace deal with the footballer turned broadcaster, 62, who will now present FA Cup quarter-final coverage this weekend.

MailOnline understands that those who walked out in support of the MotD host, including Alan Shearer, Ian Wright and Mark Chapman, will also face no action from BBC bosses, with Lineker thanking them for their ‘remarkable show of solidarity’.

It marks a huge victory for the former England captain, the corporation’s highest-paid star on £1.35million a year, over the BBC in a crisis sparked by his tweets likening the Government’s crackdown on migrants in small boats to 1930s Nazi Germany.

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