Many will have noticed he has changed his Twitter image to a picture of him stood in front of a mural reading: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” While the retweet of May’s criticism is far more subtle than the “Nazi Germany” tweet, his Twitter timeline will nonetheless continue to face scrutiny between now and the review. Lineker’s retweet will raise a few eyebrows, given that he has agreed to abide by the BBC’s social media guidelines for presenters in the interim before the BBC updates these guidelines in the coming weeks, with the terms of an independent review set to be outlined in the coming days.

May, a former Home Secretary, also described the policy as a “blanket dismissal” of those facing persecution. He retweeted May’s outburst against the policy yesterday – another Channel 4 News clip – in which she used a parliamentary debate to say immigrants would “have the door to the UK shut in their face” under the government’s proposals. Lineker was stood down by the BBC last weekend for comparing the government’s language around its asylum policy to Nazi Germany and he at no point accused UK citizens of behaving like “racist bigots and Nazis.” This is outrageous and dangerously provocative.”

The clip and a screenshot was widely shared on Twitter and Lineker quote-tweeted one of these screenshots with the remark: “No he hasn’t and never would. 'The Night Manager': Tom Hiddleston Meets His Indian Counterpart Aditya Roy Kapur On Video Call During London Screening

My theresa review