GARY Lineker has been told to “get off” the BBC by a senior colleague for his political tweets.
Match of the Day presenter Lineker, who is paid £1.35m a year, criticised MPs for letting sewage get onto beaches. In response, Home and Foreign News editor Neil Henderson tweeted: “The BBC lives or dies by its impartiality. If you can’t abide it, get off it”. Lineker replied that he’s freelance, and has a different contract to those in news. Henderson later deleted the posts.
