The BBC is set to have a 'frank conversation' with Gary Lineker over his comments on the government's new asylum policy.
The Match of the Day presenter posted a number of tweets in response to the Home Secretary's announcement that asylum seekers who arrive in the UK on small boats will be detained without the possibility of bail. He compared the language used to launch the new asylum policy to 1930s Germany and said the plan was 'beyond awful'.
As Suella Braverman branded the remarks as 'disappointing and unhelpful', a BBC source told the PA news agency that the corporation is taking the matter 'seriously' and expects to have a 'frank conversation' with the 62-year-old football pundit. Lineker was also criticised by Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick, who said on Wednesday that the presenter is 'so far out of step with the British public'.
