Gary Lineker, the highest-paid presenter on the BBC, will be reprimanded by bosses for comparing UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s migrant crackdown to Nazi Germany and branding it “beyond awful.”
The Match of the Day host shared a video of Mrs Braverman outlining the Illegal Migration Bill online, commenting, “Good heavens, this is beyond awful.”
He then used his Twitter account, with 8.6 million followers, to describe the plans as “immeasurably cruel.”
Conservative MPs have accused him of an “extraordinary and outrageous slur” and called for his dismissal.
Craig Mackinlay, the Conservative MP for South Thanet, called for Lineker’s sacking, while Jonathan Gullis, the Conservative MP for Stoke-on-Trent North, asked the BBC to “remind him his job is to talk football, not politics.”
Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson suggested that Lineker should stick to reading out the football scores and promoting crisps.
Lineker, criticised for previous anti-Tory comments, 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 a language dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s.
I’m out of order?” The BBC said that Lineker would be “spoken to” and reminded of his responsibilities.
Mrs Braverman has said that judges at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg would be asked not to intervene in asylum policy.
Most claims lodged by irregular migrants will be ruled inadmissible as soon as they reach Britain.
They will be detained, removed ‘in weeks’ to either their home country or a safe third country such as Rwanda, and banned from returning.
Lineker’s tweets breach BBC impartiality rules. He was found to have broken them in a post last February, in which he singled out Conservatives for having ‘Russian donors.’
In September last year, the BBC faced backlash over claims that it had forced a senior journalist to apologise to Lineker for criticising his anti-Government tweets.
In front of MPs, BBC director-general Tim Davie said that the presenter’s approach to impartiality was a ‘work in progress.’
Still, his social media behaviour had undergone a ‘massive improvement.’
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