LONDON, March 11 — BBC television’s flagship football programme was in meltdown on Saturday after pundits and commentators refused to work in support of presenter Gary Lineker,...
The row was sparked by Lineker’s response to a video in which Home Secretary Suella Braverman unveiled plans to stop migrants crossing the Channel on small boats.highest-paid star, wrote on Twitter: “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.”
The Conservative government intends to outlaw asylum claims by all illegal arrivals and transfer them elsewhere, such as Rwanda, in a bid to stop the crossings, which totalled more than 45,000 last year. Stopping the boats is the “people’s priority”, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told the House of Commons earlier this week.But rights groups and the United Nations said the legislation would make Britain an international outlaw under European and UN conventions on asylum.move sparked a wave of criticism from politicians and public figures, many of whom accused it of buckling to demands from Conservative politicians.
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