TalkSport presenter and Sun columnist Jon Gaunt has been fired by the UTV-owned radio station for calling a London councillor a “Nazi”.

Gaunt was originally suspended from the station following remarks made on 7 November to Redbridge councillor Michael Stark in a heated discussion about a local authority plan to ban smokers from becoming foster parents. He called Stark an ‘ignorant pig’and a Nazi.

An investigation followed and Gaunt issued an on air-apology and claimed that he meant to say ‘health Nazi”, but despite this his employment was terminated today.