Gary Lineker ‘controversy’ is rumbling on into a third day, and there’s more “bad news” for the presenter – now, his old Twitter foe Piers Morgan is defending him.
The Match of the Day presenter criticised Home office policy and compared it to Nazi Germany this week, resulting in a BBC spokesperson stating that he will be “reminded of his responsibilities on social media” by the broadcaster.
Lineker commented on a Twitter video put out by Home Secretary Suella Braverman tweet, which saw her discuss government plans to stop migrant boats crossing the Channel. Sign up to our new free Indy100 weekly newsletter“Good heavens, this is beyond awful,” Lineker wrote, responding to Braverman's video.
After another social media user called him “out of order”, the former England footballer replied: “There is no huge influx. We take far fewer refugees than other major European countries. “This is just an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s, and I’m out of order?”Now, Morgan has weighed in on the comments and said that while they were “clearly incendiary”, Lineker’s opinions “should not matter to the BBC’s news output”.
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