Gary Lineker has been found to have broken BBC impartiality rules after he tweeted about Liz Truss.
He had asked his followers at the time: ‘And her party will hand back their donations from Russian donors?’
His tweet was investigated by the BBC’s Executive Complaints Unit which upheld a complaint and said the post ‘did not meet the BBC’s editorial standards on impartiality’.
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