Gary Linekar: 'I felt vindicated throughout. I was never in doubt that I'd done something horrendously Wrong or anything, other than supporting people that are in dreadful circumstances.'
BBC presenter Gary Lineker waded into the row over controversial plans for a pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Armistice Day today, after the Home Secretary branded it a 'hate march'.
After she appeared to pass responsibility on to the police, Mr Lineker, who has courted controversy in the past over his political statements while working for the national broadcaster, replied: 'Marching and calling for a ceasefire and peace so that more innocent children don't get killed is not really the definition of a hate march.'
But he in turn was tackled by historian and broadcaster Simon Schama, who has also worked for the BBC. Mr Schama, who is Jewish, replied: 'Why would you have a ceasefire with terrorists whose leaders have explicitly said they want to do October 7 again and again until Israel is annihilated?' 'If it goes ahead there is an obvious risk of serious public disorder, violence and damage as well as giving offence to millions of decent British people.
There are fears marchers could disrupt the two-minute silence commemorating the war dead as well as the daytime and evening Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall. The latter is usually attended by members of the Royal Family. Tom Tugendhat, the security minister and a veteran who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, today called the protests 'inappropriate' and said he had written to Mr Khan to ask him to consider the 'options available'.
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