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The BBC shouldn’t have taken Gary Lineker off air

11 March 2023

10:53 PM

11 March 2023

10:53 PM

The BBC’s decision to take Gary Lineker off the air is the sort of self-harming stupidity at which the Corporation excels. The Match of the Day presenter tweeted that the Illegal Migration Bill was ‘an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people’ and done ‘in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s’.

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