Former English footballer and now star BBC presenter, Gary Lineker, he will temporarily leave his position in the program “Match of the Day” as a result of controversies statements against the government about his immigration policy, the radio and television reported on Friday.
Lineker62, was harshly criticized for comparing in a tweet the language used by the conservative executive of Rishi Sunak when presenting his controversial bill against the irregular migration with the rhetoric of Nazi Germany.
“The BBC has had extensive discussions with Gary and his team in the last days. We have said that we consider his recent activity on social media to be a violation of our guidelinesof impartiality, affirmed a spokesman for the entity.
“The BBC has decided that it will stop presenting ‘The match of the day’ until we have a clear and agreed position on their use of social networks,” he said.
The controversy was sparked by his response on Twitter, where he has 9 million followersto a video in which the Minister of the Interior, the ultra-conservative Suella Bravermanrevealed Tuesday plans to detain and expel those who arrive in the country irregularlyprevent them from applying for asylum and ban them for life from obtaining British nationality.
“There is not a large influx. We accept far fewer refugees than other European countries important,” Lineker wrote. “This it’s just an immeasurably cruel policy addressed to the most vulnerable people in a language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 1930s,” he added.
On Thursday he said that I assumed his words and that he really wanted to present the program next Tuesday, what he did since 1999, five years after retiring from the fields.