Gary Lineker Rebuked By Home Secretary & BBC Following Tweet Comparing UK Gov’t Asylum Policy To 1930s Germany
deadline.comBBC Match of the Day host Gary Lineker has landed himself and the corporation in hot water once again, this time on the government’s controversial asylum policy.
The Home Secretary said this morning she is “obviously disappointed” and the BBC is understood to have spoken to Lineker and reminded him of his responsibilities after he described yesterday’s policy for handling Britain’s small boats crisis as “beyond awful.” He went on to equate the policy with “that used by Germany in the 1930s.” Speaking to the BBC’s Today in the past hour, Home Secretary Suella Braverman said she is “obviously disappointed” by Lineker’s comments. “I don’t think [comparing the policy to Nazi Germany] is an appropriate way of framing the debate,” she added.
Given that he is contracted but not employed by the BBC, the former footballer does not have to abide by the corporation’s most stringent social media impartiality rules but he has nonetheless been spoken with.
Lineker’s comments made the front pages of the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph this morning.Good heavens, this is beyond awful.
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