The British government does not want the BBC incident with Gary Lineker to become a matter of state

The British Conservative Government has reiterated this Sunday that it is up to the BBC to resolve the crisis with the former soccer player Gary Linekerpro Diego Maradona and Lionel Messiwho was section as presenter of the public channel after criticizing the Executive’s immigration plan on Twitter.

Economy Minister Jeremy Hunt said this Sunday when interviewed on Sky News that “it is not up to him” to decide whether Lineker violated the station’s impartiality rules – which are somewhat different for news staff and other spaces -, in the same line of what the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, declared.

In a statement, Sunak said he understood that “not everyone will agree” with his controversial plan to deny asylum to migrants who arrive illegally in the UK in small boats and said that “it is a matter” of the public channel and its presenter. star how they resolve their dispute.

The Labor spokeswoman for the Economy, Rachel Reeves, has declared to Sky News that Lineker’s temporary suspension “is a disproportionate measure”, and accused Conservative parliamentarians and ministers of “having pressured” the BBC to force it to remove him. .

The suspension of the former Barcelona player -and of the English team- from his Match of the Day football programme, which he has presented since 1999, On Saturday, he provoked a wave of solidarity among his colleagues that has caused changes in all the sports programming of the public channel weekend.

The director general of the BBC, Tim Davie, apologized this Saturday for this disorder but ruled out resigning, and hoped to be able to reach an agreement on the use of social networks that would allow Lineker to return to his post, who has spoken on other occasions controversial issues in the UK.