Hours of soccer coverage had to be cancelled or stripped down this weekend as dozens of on-air personalities refused to work out of solidarity with Lineker
The BBC is facing an unprecedented staff mutiny and allegations it stifled free speech after managers suspended top sportscaster Gary Lineker for criticizing the government’s new migration policy.
The turmoil began on Tuesday when Mr. Lineker criticized the British government’s new measures to crack down on illegal immigration through increased detentions and deportations. “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?” Mr. Lineker said in a tweet.Home Secretary Suella Braverman called the tweet offensive and noted that her husband was Jewish.
Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer accused the BBC of bowing to pressure from the government. “It is not impartial for BBC to cave in to Tory MPs complaining about Gary Lineker; it’s the opposite of impartial,” Mr. Starmer said on Saturday. “They got this one badly wrong and now they’re very, very exposed.”
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