Gary Lineker says he teared up over co-hosts’ support in impartiality row

Lineker said: “I think it’s really difficult. I think for me, what they have to think about first and foremost, before you talk about anybody else’s impartiality – the government of the day, whoever that is, whether it’s Tory or Labour, cannot decide who the chairman of the BBC is, or have any kind of influence on who they put into the director of news or anything else.