Richard appeared on Question Time on Thursday
Richard Madeley came to Gary Lineker’s defence during Question Time after the Match of the Day presenter compared the UK Conservative government to Nazi Germany.
Gary, who earlier this year poked fun at a hilarious Match of the Day X-rated blunder, was very vocal on social media and replied to the Home Office’s tweet with: “Good heavens, this is beyond hurtful.” His tweet sparked a considerable backlash from right-wing commentators, with some questioning whether it broke the BBC’s impartiality rules.
He explained: “Clearly if he was a political journalist, political presenter or interviewer in any of the areas of the BBC that we’re talking about, like Newsnight, then clearly he shouldn’t have made those comments. “And quite how having [not having the right to have] the freedom of speech on – not even on any of his programmes – but on his Twitter page, to say anything he likes within in the law, escapes me,” the Good Morning Britain presenter, who is usually seen alongside Susanna Reid, added.
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