Insiders at the corporation said BBC chiefs had asked Gary Lineker to say sorry for the tweets and he was unwilling to do so. As a result, he will not present Match of the Day this weekend janemerrick23 reports:
Gary Lineker was taken off air after refusing to apologise for his tweets about the government’s asylum policy,BBC chiefs had asked the presenter to say sorry for the tweets and he was unwilling to do so. As a result, he will not present Match of the Day this weekend.it was not the presenter’s decision to step back from the show but “it was the BBC’s doing”, and the presenter was left with no option.after days of political pressure over the fallout.
Initially the former England footballer had been told by BBC chiefs he would not face action after tweeting earlier this week that the language from Home Secretary Suella Braverman over the government’s new asylum crackdown was “not dissimilar” to that used in 1930s Germany. But on Friday, after ministers and MPs maintained criticism of his comments, Lineker was asked to step back from the Saturday highlights show. It is understood the star is unhappy about the standoff.
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