Migrants waiting to cross the Channel to Britain today thanked Gary Lineker for opposing Rishi Sunak 's immigration bill.
And Ahmad Harris, 17, one of an estimated 1,200 migrants camped in squalid conditions on the French coast, compared the BBC ’s move to silence him to the tactics of the Taliban.
Ahmad, who fled Kabul six months ago and has family in the UK, told us: “Gary Lineker is a good man and a hero to us for speaking.