Gary Lineker breaks silence after BBC find agreement for Match of the Day presenter’s return
Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The Match of the Day presenter was absent on Saturday following a row over impartiality after he compared the language used to launch a new government asylum policy on tackling small boats with 1930s Germany. Lineker’s colleagues, Ian Wright and Alan Shearer, boycotted the football highlights programme in a show of solidarity, but with a solution for his return now found, the former England striker revealed his relief. “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.” Gary Lineker has broken his silence after the Match of the Day presenter was taken off air He has since faced criticism from Downing Street, culture secretary Lucy Frazer and Ms Braverman, who accused him of “diminishing the unspeakable tragedy” of the Holocaust. Gary Lineker leaves his home in London following reports that the BBC is to have a “frank conversation” about the Tweets He previously told reporters outside his London home that he stood by his criticism of the immigration policy and did not fear suspension by the BBC.
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