EXCLUSIVE: Gary Lineker has once again sparked a political row with the Tories after voicing his thoughts on the resignation of BBC Chairman Richard Sharp.
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One of the great “Ifs…” of recent history is to imagine what would have happened if, instead of allying himself with Bush, Blair had made common cause with the French president, Jacques Chirac, and Gerhard Schröder, the German chancellor, in expressing sympathy for the US after 9/11 but warning that an invasion of Iraq would be disastrous. It could have transformed the course of European history, and we might never have had Brexit.
retreats he destroys a repetition of the bbc for enforcing impartiality. i don t think we should be worrying too much about lessons in impartiality from rupert murdoch s press. i think the bbc cut the second person who made mistakes in this, the people at the top of the bbc management made a mistake and overreacting to the political pressure. and i do think the third point i d make it as i do genuinely think that having richard sharpe as the bbc chairman, and it s notjust that he has a tory, is the fact he is a tory donor, is the fact he has such little experience in the water broadcasting and its particularly to my mind the fact that he helped arrange a loan for borisjohnson, then the prime minister, up £800,000, for somebody who is on a pretty large salary already, so the sort of tour really are off there in this completely disconnected world thinking that whatever they do, the rules don t apply. and it turns out if you saw sharp s evidence to the