Gary Lineker has fallen foul of the BBC’s impartiality rules with a tweet sent in February this year, the organisation has found.
The Match of the Day host is the corporation's highest-earning on-air figure - a status he has held for five years in a row - with a pay-packet north of £1.35m during the 2021-22 period. The tweet in question came in February, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and saw the former England striker question then-home secretary Liz Truss over comments about a potential boycott of the Champions League final
Lineker's comments were looked into by the BBC's executive complaints unit [ECU], which found they "did not meet the BBC's editorial standards on impartiality". According to the BBC, Lineker himself has declined to comment on the matter.
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