Incoming BBC chairman Samir Shah has confirmed that Gary Lineker’s tweets to Conservative MPs this week appear to break the broadcaster’s new social media guidelines.
This came after Lineker signed a letter calling for the Government to scrap its Rwanda scheme.
The letter demanded political leaders come up with a “fair new plan for refugees”.
Lineker joined 30 others in signing the letter, including actors Brian Cox, Juliet Stevenson and David Morrissey, as well as Kaiser Chiefs musician Simon Rix.
Tory MP Jonathan Gullis hit out at the BBC on X accusing Lineker of breaching the broadcaster’s new impartiality guidelines, which state that presenters must not endorse or attack a political party or criticise the character or individual politicians in the UK.
But the presenter hit back saying: “Jonathan hasn’t read the new guidelines…or, should I say, had someone read them to him.”
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