![]() “People who feel strongly should be able to speak out and say the things that they feel.” ‘Pundits can’t be apolitical’ “He is somebody who has spoken out strongly on lots of different issues,” she said. Shadow home secretary Yvetter Cooper told Radio 4’s Today programme that although she didn’t agree with Lineker’s Nazi comparison, any decision to take action against him should be left to the BBC. In October, Lineker was found to have broken the national broadcaster’s impartiality rules after he tweeted negative comments about the Conservative Party.īut impartiality issues aside, other BBC bosses have reportedly “defended Lineker’s right to express his political opinions on the grounds that he does not work in news or current affairs”. This isn’t the first time Lineker has “waded into politics, despite BBC impartiality rules”, said the paper, which reported that some BBC managers were “furious” about his latest comments after he was told last year by director general Tim Davie to stay away from politics. Jonathan Gullis, MP for Stoke-on-Trent North, urged the broadcaster to “stand up” to Lineker and “remind him his job is to talk football, not politics”. Craig Mackinlay, the MP for South Thanet, said that Lineker’s comments were a “step too far” and that the BBC should sack him. Other Tory MPs expressed outrage to The Telegraph. “I think it’s unhelpful to compare our measures, which are lawful, proportionate and indeed compassionate, to 1930s Germany,” she said. After a Twitter challenger accused him of being “out of order”, the TV pundit responded: “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?” ‘Talk football, not politics’īraverman told BBC One’s Breakfast programme that she was “disappointed” by Lineker’s comments. “Good heavens, this is beyond awful,” Lineker tweeted. The Week Unwrapped: Connectivity costs, Syrian diplomacy and French football.How Europe reported on the EU-Qatar corruption scandal.
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