Gary Lineker was thrown off air after criticising the government's new asylum policy before being reinstated with an apology just days later.
“This is going to be one of those moments that goes viral isn't it", Stolen Youth author Bethany Mandel said.
According to BBC insiders, Downing Street has been increasingly involved in editorial decisions within the national broadcaster.
The Government’s controversial asylum proposals laid out in the Illegal Migration Bill cleared their first Commons hurdle on Monday.
The Match Of The Day host described accusations that he called northern voters ‘racist bigots’ as ‘outrageous’.
Staff in the sport department were said to be furious that no one saw how the row would spiral.
For those counting, that is now three run-ins with the police in the last year.
The recently reinstated Match Of The Day host asked the Twitter owner whether the language was ‘acceptable’ on his platform.
Former England footballer John Barnes thinks the UK considers certain groups of refugees to be “more worthy” than others.
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