{"id":30136,"date":"2023-03-11T04:26:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T04:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/03\/11\/gary-lineker-says-he-stands-by-tweets-criticising-governments-asylum-policy\/"},"modified":"2023-03-11T04:26:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T04:26:38","slug":"gary-lineker-says-he-stands-by-tweets-criticising-governments-asylum-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=30136","title":{"rendered":"Gary Lineker says he stands by tweets criticising government&#8217;s asylum policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Gary Lineker has said he stands by his tweet that criticised the government&#8217;s asylum policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">When asked by reporters outside his home on Thursday whether he feared suspension from the BBC, the Match of the Day host said: &#8220;No&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Lineker had compared the language the government used to set out asylum plans to &#8220;that used by Germany in the 30s&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The culture secretary said the presenter&#8217;s tweets were &#8220;disappointing and inappropriate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><b class=\"ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Read more about Channel migrant crossings<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-64899293?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Gary Lineker has said he stands by his tweet that criticised the government&#8217;s asylum policy. When asked by reporters outside his home on Thursday whether he feared suspension from &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}