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Gary Lineker is a ‘monster of the BBC’s own creation’ who scares his bosses, veteran presenter John Humphrys said yesterday.
The former Radio 4 Today programme host, 79, branded Lineker’s tweet comparing the language over the government’s small boats crisis to that of 1930s Nazi Germany as ‘morally repugnant’.
But Humphrys also criticised the way Director General Tim Davie handled the ‘grotesque spat’.
Highlighting how public confidence was falling in the BBC’s leadership, he said: ‘That’s partly because it’s become obvious that the Corporation has never got its head around how to deal with monsters of its own creation.
‘Harsh on Lineker to call him a monster? Of course. But isn’t that how we view those we are most scared of? And BBC
