Does anyone care what Gary Lineker tweets?
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🗓️ 13 December 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The incoming chair of the BBC, Samir Shah, has suggested that Gary Lineker may have breached BBC guidelines with his 'ad hominem attacks' on two Conservative MPs.
It was only two months ago that the BBC drew up its new social media guidelines - Do they make sense? Does Lineker care? And how much is the corporation responding to pressure from the right wing papers? Later - Mark Drakeford is stepping down as Wales First Minister - and is Rishi out of trouble now after winning last night's Rwanda vote?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.4 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:14.8 | Now on BBC One, we're sorry that we're unable to show our normal match of the day, including commentary tonight, |
| 0:20.3 | but here now is the best action from today's Premier League matches. |
| 0:25.2 | Who could forget that seminal episode of Match of the Day, which had no presenter, |
| 0:31.1 | after Gary Linneker had ended up on the wrong side of the BBC and been told to step away |
| 0:36.5 | from presenting, and many others had refused |
| 0:39.3 | to fill in behind him. Today, we're looking at a situation which might escalate in the same |
| 0:45.5 | direction. Yes, could history be about to repeat itself? Because the incoming chairman of the BBC |
| 0:51.4 | has been before a parliamentary committee and said, looks like Gary |
| 0:56.4 | Lineca has broken the new guidelines. I'm sure the BBC is looking into it. Are we about to have |
| 1:03.2 | a replay of what happened in March? Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:10.5 | The Newsagents. It's John. It's Emily. The news agents. |
| 1:12.8 | It's John. |
| 1:13.8 | It's Emily. |
| 1:14.4 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:15.0 | And the reason why we're talking about Gary Lineker again is that here is the BBC's |
| 1:21.1 | highest paid star, the presenter of Match of the Day, in trouble again over tweeting about |
| 1:27.2 | the government's Rwanda policy. He signed |
| 1:29.7 | an open letter in which he said, well, look, I don't think this is a right policy. I think it should |
| 1:34.6 | be withdrawn. A couple of Tory MPs, including the Defence Secretary, had a go at him, and he had |
| 1:40.4 | it go at them. The new guidelines from the BBC BBC say you can't do that. So what's the |
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