Should Gary Lineker be free to speak his mind?
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Gary Lineker has responded to the furore surrounding his tweet on the government's asylum policy with the promise to 'keep speaking for those with no voice'.
It's being reported on the BBC News website - whist - we understand - the BBC is currently trying to give Lineker 'a frank talking to' for breaking impartiality rules.
How do the BBC rules on impartiality work? We speak here from a little experience... And can Suella Braverman defend her language - and her policy more generally - to the country?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.8 | If the BBC had been hoping that Gary Lineker would eat a huge dollop of humble pie |
| 0:19.2 | after saying that he found Suellaubberman's policies on asylum seekers |
| 0:24.8 | as awful repellent, a bit of 1930s language in there as well, they're going to be disappointed |
| 0:30.5 | because Gary Lineckett today has said, I have never known such love and support in my life than |
| 0:35.6 | I'm getting this morning, England World Cup goals aside possibly. I want to thank each and every one of you. It means a lot. |
| 0:41.7 | I will continue to try and speak up for those poor souls that have no voice, cheers all and a punch emoji. |
| 0:50.5 | And he also made clear, perhaps by talking about the love that was coming his way, that he doesn't feel remotely out of step with public opinion on this one. |
| 1:00.4 | And I raise that question of public opinion because possibly it shouldn't matter. |
| 1:04.8 | It was used by the immigration minister, Robert Jenrick, we'll hear it later, as a form of castigation in his interview with Nick Ferrari, |
| 1:11.9 | as a way of saying that if your licence fee is being paid, then you have a duty to be in step |
| 1:17.9 | with British opinion. And it's a weird, slightly authoritarian, slightly sinister thing to say |
| 1:26.3 | about how you're allowed to think if you work at the BBC. |
| 1:31.5 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:36.1 | The newsagents. |
| 1:38.1 | It's John. |
| 1:39.5 | It's Emily. |
| 1:40.1 | And it's Lewis. |
| 1:41.0 | And Emily, have you stopped laughing now? |
| 1:42.4 | Because as you were recording the pre-intro there, I noticed that your hysterics were barely contained that John's uses of the phrase, humble pie. |
| 1:48.6 | I just, I've never heard anyone use that phrase in broadcasting podcast land except for you. |
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