Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says a row between the BBC and football presenter Gary Lineker over his criticism of the government's migration policy is a matter for the broadcaster.
He said it was important to maintain perspective given the seriousness of the migration issue which saw 45,000 people risk their lives crossing the English Channel illegally last year.
"We in the BBC, and myself, are absolutely driven by a passion for impartiality, not left, right or pandering to a particular party," he said. Lineker declined to comment to media as he left his London home on Saturday and did not reply to questions from reporters on arrival at the King Power Stadium in Leicester where he went to watch one of his former clubs play.Lineker, 62, took to Twitter to describe the legislation as a "cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s".
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