Gary Lineker sparks BBC impartiality row with migration policy comments
08.03.2023 - 02:47
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Gary Lineker has sparked a BBC impartiality row after branding the Tories' latest plan to imprison asylum seekers entering the UK as 'beyond awful' in a post on social media.
Home secretary Suella Braverman announced the plans to the House of Commons on Tuesday (March 7), stating that asylum seekers who arrive in the UK on small boats will be detained without the possibility of bail.
She was joined by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as she formally unveiled the plans to remove and ban asylum seekers from re-entry if they arrive in the UK through unauthorised means.
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BBC Sport presenter Lineker, who welcomed a second refugee into his Surrey home in October last year, has since criticised the move, retweeting a video of Ms Braverman claiming that "Enough is enough. We must stop the boats" with the words "Good heavens, this is beyond awful". He went on to compare the government's new migration policy to the tactics of Nazi Germany in another tweet.
A Twitter user then replied to Lineker's assertions stating that "they could 'stop the boats' tomorrow by opening processing centres in France but they don't want to. They would rather have the optics and language of 'invasion' to enrage their flagging base" to which Lineker replied: "Yep."
In the Commons, Ms Braverman told MPs: “For a Government not to respond to waves of illegal migrants breaching our borders would be to betray the will of the people we were elected to serve. They will not stop coming here until the world knows that if you enter Britain illegally you will be detained and swiftly removed.
“Removed back to your country if it is safe, or to a safe third country like
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