Gary Lineker had BBC 'deal' to let him post about refugees and climate change

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Gary Lineker has revealed that he and BBC director-general Tim Davie struck a deal that allows him to post about two issues he cares passionately about: the refugee crisis and climate change.

on Saturday March 11, with several other TV personalities, including Ian Wright and Alan Shearer, boycotting the programme in solidarity with their friend and colleague.

In a new interview on The Rest is Politics podcast with Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart, he shed further light on what went down from his point of view.supports HTML5 video Gary was astounded to wake up the next day to find hundreds of messages on his phone, with no idea what had caused the barrage of texts, fearing that something had happened to one of his children, or ‘some kind of scandal’ had occurred.

He continued: ‘I’m not saying at all our policies echo those of Germany, but sometimes some of the language is not dissimilar.’Gary then brought up the conversation that he had with Tim about being allowed to speak about the refugee crisis and climate change freely, stating: ‘When I first met Tim Davie when he first brought in his guidelines, we had a discussion and I said to Tim, “There are two things that I’ll continue to talk up on, that I will not back down on.

 

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Odd solution. Does that apply to everyone at the BBC or just him?

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