“Because at the heart of this is the government’s failure in the asylum system. “They got this one badly wrong and now they are very, very exposed,” Starmer stated. While the broadcaster’s director-general Tim Davie flatly rejected that Lineker was suspended due to pressure from the governing Conservative Party, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said that BBC was “caving in” to Conservative MPs, saying such actions were “the opposite of impartial.” Several shows went off air from BBC after presenters and commentators refused to participate in solidarity with Gary Lineker. However, Lineker is a freelance broadcaster, and not a permanent member of the BBC’s staff. The 100-year-old broadcaster has rules which state that its staff are barred from expressing political opinions. However, the suspension has thrown light on BBC’s ‘impartiality’ in its news coverage.
He was greeted with cheers from bystanders as he arrived for a match Chelsea won 3-1. On Saturday, he went to his hometown of Leicester to watch Leicester City play Chelsea in the Premier League. Lineker hasn’t commented on the suspension publicly. “The BBC has decided that he will step back from presenting Match of the Day until we’ve got an agreed and clear position on his use of social media,” the broadcaster said in a statement. A day after Lineker’s tweet, BBC on 8 March said that Lineker’s “recent social media activity to be a breach of our guidelines”, adding he should avoid taking sides on political issues.
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