This 3 minute clip from 2021 is still being widely shared. It's helpful if you want to understand how Gary Lineker feels about the issue of refugees, about his relationship with the BBC - and about the idea of the BBC telling him what he can and can't tweet.
@a_webb @secrettory12 There is no huge influx. We take far fewer refugees than other major European countries. This is just an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s, and I’m out of order?
I’m totally with @GaryLineker both for his right to express his own views but more importantly on the sentiment. How @SuellaBraverman can claim these plans are either legal or compassionate is totally beyond me. And sending any of them to Rwanda is absolutely despicable.